Trish Hopkinson is a poet and literary arts advocate. You can find her online at SelfishPoet.com and provisionally in Colorado, where she runs the regional poetry group Rock Canyon Poets, curates Poetry Happens for KRCL 90.9 FM, and is a Poetry Reader for The Adroit Journal. Her poetry has been published in several magazines and journals, including Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, and The Penn Review; and her fourth chapbook Almost Famous was published by Yavanika Press in 2019. Hopkinson happily answers to labels such as atheist, feminist, and empty nester; and enjoys traveling, live music, and craft beer.
Every Friday night at 10pm EST / 7pm PST tune in online to hear poetry or read your own. This show is in it’s fifith year and you can check out archive shows to see if it’s the poetry forum you’re looking for. (It appears they play music […]
Albany Poetry Workshop’s online classroom provides “five exercises that we hope will inspire, cajole, and tease you into writing new work.” The exercises themes include: The Five Senses Organic Metaphor Organic Simile Personification Integrated Poem If these five exercises aren’t enough, check out their other sessions, including a Seven-Session […]
Winter Tangerine is a literary and arts magazine in print and online. They “aim to disrupt the status quo. To amplify the unheard. To account for the unaccounted. To publish the unconventional, confront the uncomfortable, marvel in the mundane.” They’re also currently accepting submissions for their Lineage of […]
The type of verbs selected for a poem, essay, play, or friendly conversation impacts us--mind and body. The brain processes language--what we hear, read, and write but more and more research indicates that the body also pushes into our ability to recognize and use language. Often verbs generate […]
Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity is the blog and writing resource site by writer Erica Verrillo. Her site is loaded with great articles for writers and the writing life, including listings of publishers, agents, where to get reviews, submission calls, free contests, writing conferences and more. […]
Our friends at Entropy have been interviewing small presses and adding them to their Small Press Database which now has over 115 listed! They ask the “editors about their origins, their mission, and what it's like to run a press. Also find press details, links to websites, and submission […]
Big thanks to Califragile for featuring three of my poems this month! The third and final poem “What,” inspired by Sharon Olds’ poem “When,” has now been published. “What” was originally published in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands by Shabda Press. Califragile is a new online poetry journal seeking […]
Big thanks to Califragile for featuring three of my poems this month! The third and final poem “What,” inspired by Sharon Olds’ poem “When,” has now been published. “What” was originally published in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands by Shabda Press. Califragile is a new online poetry journal seeking […]
Those of you who have been following my submission call posts for a while know how much I appreciate the staff at Lunch Ticket. They are kind, responsive, and organized. They are currently open for all writing genres and visual art, including specific calls for young adults (13+) and […]
We all have lines from other poets inside us, their voices, narrative or lyrical styles, and syntactical qualities that make their work unique, and loved by us. And we read or know about lives of poets whom we identify with or maybe don't, in their biographies finding a […]
