"Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started."Â --Sol LeWitt

Elizabeth Hoover is the associate editor of Sampsonia Way. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where her scholarship and poetry were recognized by a Project on African Expressive Traditions grant and the Won-Joon Yon Scholarship for Racial Tolerance.

As a freelance writer, Hoover has written for American Heritage, Life, and Poets and Writers. Her criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has published poetry in The Adirondack Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, the Atlanta Review, and the Other Journal. Recently, New Letters nominated her for a Pushcart Prize.

On this edition of The Poets Weave, Hoover reads her poems "Against Minimalism," Crossing Hart Creek," and "In the Entry Way."