The (Not So) Selfish Poet: Talking Feminism and Community with Trish Hopkinson via OyeDrum

It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by Alex Graffeo, Managing Editor for OyeDrum. OyeDrum is “an online magazine and intersectional feminist collective. We are a community dedicated to women’s creative and intellectual work.” You can read more about the name OyeDrum here. They feature a quarterly themed issue from a selection of curated work, and a weekly section open to all genres.  I love the aesthetic of their site, so I interviewed Head Witch/Founder Amarantha da Cruz to find out more. See my interview with da Cruz and a link to their submission guidelines here. They also run a podcast entitled “In Conversation.” Make sure to check out all three episodes!

Click here to read the full interview.

Here’s an excerpt:

2.      What are you working on now/what can we look forward to reading from you in the near future?

I’ve just finished the final edits on my first full-length manuscript of poems and started sending it out to contests. It’s definitely a feminist work, entitled A Godless Ascends, with each of the four sections prefaced with what I’ve called my “she-god” poems. The first poem, actually titled “she-god” was recently published in Rise Up Review (https://riseupreview.org/trish-hopkinson). The collection includes coming-of-age topics, coming to terms with womanhood, and a section each dedicated to poems for and about my children. Additionally, my poem “all words for a woman” is forthcoming in They Call Us for their “They Call Us Bossy” themed issue (https://www.theycallus.com/zine).

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