LA-Lit interviewed Jen Hoffer on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 5pm.

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LA-Lit 5 Part a
LA-Lit 5 Part b

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Jen Hofer moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles in 2002. She edited and translated Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Her recent books include a translation of sections from Dolores Dorantes’ sexopurosexoveloz (Seeing Eye Books, 2004), lawless (Seeing Eye Books, 2003), slide rule (subpress collective, 2002), and The 3:15 Experiment (with Lee Ann Brown, Danika Dinsmore and Bernadette Mayer, The Owl Press, 2001), as well as a forthcoming collaboration with poet and musician Patrick Durgin, to be published by Atelos. With Rod Smith, she is co-editing issue #10 of Aerial Magazine, a critical volume dedicated to the work of Lyn Hejinian. Recent poems and translations can be found in 1913, BOMB, damn the ceasars, new messes, Séance and Where We Put Our Hats. In addition to teaching poetics at CalArts, Jen works as a court interpreter in the Los Angeles County Superior Courts. She is co-founder of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycling Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.

Jen read from her manucript, _one_. You can download pdf’s of poems Jen read during the show below. Both are from _one_:
less then more then less again – published in war & peace #2 (2005)
less and less or more and more – published in 1913 #2 (2005)

Other work of Jen Hofer’s can be found online at the links below:
http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/jhofer.htm
http://www.dusie.org/hofer.html
http://www.corpse.org/issue_4/burning_bush/hofer.htm
http://www.durationpress.com/abend/asfaras.htm
http://www.durationpress.com/kenning/Hofer.html