Cynthia Marie Hoffman's guest appearances

Cynthia Marie Hoffman

Civitella

Watershed Lit

Cynthia Marie

Tobias Wolff

Chloe Benjamin

Salvatore Scibona

Karen Russell

Rion Amilcar Scott

Jamel Brinkley

Rebecca Makkai

Eliza Griswold

Ted Conover

Randa Jarrar

Ethel Rohan

Carolyn Forche

Mark Strand

Reginald Dwayne Betts

OwlTail

Cynthia Marie Hoffman sits down with Fall for the Book to discuss her new book, "Call Me When You Talk About The Tombstones"(Persea Books 2018)

Cynthia Marie Hoffman - Fall for the Book Podcast

Burning Paper at Lazarus Cemetery    The woman who works in the cemetery in her blue smock bends to pick a scrap of paper from the earth and drop it in the barrel as a god would drop a bird into a sputtering volcano. A white smoke rises and disappears. All around her, crosses are popping up like crooked weeds. Listen to the little river swish along the walls of the canal. Nearby, a fresh grave is plump with flowers, a mound like a dozen girls fainted in their ruffled party skirts. What better place to be set into the ground? The trees lower long necks to the water, their many flat faces nodding at their own reflections. The woman bends. Another bird is lit afire.

Burning Paper at Lazarus Cemetery The woman who works in the cemetery in her blue smock bends to pick a scrap of paper from the earth and drop it in the barrel as a god would drop a bird into a sputtering volcano. A white smoke rises and disappears. All around her, crosses are popping up like crooked weeds. Listen to the little river swish along the walls of the canal. Nearby, a fresh grave is plump with flowers, a mound like a dozen girls fainted in their ruffled party skirts. What better place to be set into the ground? The trees lower long necks to the water, their many flat faces nodding at their own reflections. The woman bends. Another bird is lit afire.

Cynthia Marie Hoffman (DG 2011) reading