Little would the playwright have imagined that something yet to be invented called social media would one day be more powerful than swords, bullets and bombs.
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Sandeep Gopalan,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Feb. 2026
Fire in all its forms, literal and figurative and symbolic—the consuming ardor of desire, the irreversible incinerations of loss, the flaming swords of Genesis—is the central subject of Kelly Hoffer’s second collection Fire Series.
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