Alumna Carlie Hoffman ‘16 had her first collection of poems, This Alaska, picked up by Four Way Books, forthcoming in 2021.
In her poem Postcard From Alaska, Hoffman writes,
People, too, contain a dangerous spill
inside them: a transmitter out
of date, whole spheres submerged
in serotonin.
If I can believe in electricity, I can believe the dead
still live somewhere—
a zip code to a dim, immutable
breathing. A voice calling out
This is not the body you longed for—
Even the crows who stalk power
lines have flown from someplace else.
Carlie Hoffman is the author of the poetry collection This Alaska. Hoffman’s honors include a 92Y/Discovery Prize, an Amy Award from Poets & Writers, a Brooklyn Poets fellowship, and fellowships from the New York State Summer Writer’s Institute and Columbia University. She has been listed as one of Narrative Magazine's 30 below 30 poets and her poems have been published in Bennington Review, Boston Review, TriQuarterly, New England Review and elsewhere.
