Erin Hoover
Erin Hoover is the author of Barnburner (Elixir Press, 2018), winner of a Florida Book Award in poetry. Recent poems appear in the Cincinnati Review, the Florida Review, and Poetry Northwest. Hoover has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry and Best New Poets. She teaches poetry at Tennessee Tech as an assistant professor.
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Baby care instructions
Before you lived, I lived inside my own loathing. Some parents have children to replace themselves, but we’re two instead of none. Pushing you on a swing, sunset, my hands on your mammalian back, I remember how everyone thought I’d kill you by mistake, my throat in hives because I believed them. You made me […]
At the child support office
the children were surprisingly calm. Later I’d learn what my own child would accept, grown used to our nomadic life, but that was years away. Barely a person at two weeks, unlike me, she couldn’t focus on the men shuffling to the window to murmur words like cohabitate instead of what I would say, […]
On the metaphor, for women, of birthing to creative activity
I was trying to explain that transposition between having thoughts and doing for others, because in every household the metaphor is clear: the caretaker is a woman, and so when I began writing, I listed out my morning, the preparations and cleaning up of spills and toys, taking down and fetching, the driving and carrying […]
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Q&A: Erin Hoover on No Spare People
Erin Hoover, the poet behind Barnburner, featured in the Fall 2021 edition of Shenandoah, answers questions about her new collection entitled No Spare People.