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.
I’m both pleased and honored to have such a good home for my poem “Preparation” published online at The Penn Review. They are known for their fast response time, and got back to me on my submission within two days! The Penn Review was founded in 1966, making it the oldest […]
I’m both pleased and honored to have such a good home for my poem “Preparation” published online at The Penn Review. They are known for their fast response time, and got back to me on my submission within two days! The Penn Review was founded in 1966, making it the oldest […]
One Hand Clapping is a new print and online literary magazine that offers great writing for free. “It aims to give a platform to unpublished and lesser-known writers by allowing them to share a space with those who are more established.” You can read their first issue here. For […]
To elide is to drop a consonant in pronunciation. Elision also has a second meaning: the process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas. That definition could as easily apply to sculpture as to poetry. To composing as to screenwriting. It’s no surprise that the […]
I’ve been asked by a few people now for a list of contests for published poetry books, so thanks to Bernadette Geyer for putting one together! These contests do have entry fees, as most do, but they also have sizable awards. If you have a poetry book published […]
This is my first collaboration poem to be published! Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and I set to writing this piece together. You can read more of Shiffler-Olsen’s poetry in Quarterly West and Rust + Moth. We’re honored to have “Three atheists and a Mormon walk into a café” published in […]
This is my first collaboration poem to be published! Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and I set to writing this piece together. You can read more of Shiffler-Olsen’s poetry in Quarterly West and Rust + Moth. We’re honored to have “Three atheists and a Mormon walk into a café” published in […]
The Literary Whip is a new podcast where editors of literary magazines speak to rejections–specifically, pieces that almost, but not quite, made the grade. They’ll also share where pieces worked, but more importantly, where they went wrong. I wondered how and why this podcast came to be, so I asked […]
Onward and upward. I don't recall all of the Longfellow poem, “Excelsior” but I do know it deals with a young man, who in face of bad weather continues onward and upward into the Alps with a flag emblazoned with the word, “Excelsior!” The Italian Alpine society was […]
Onward and upward. I don't recall all of the Longfellow poem, “Excelsior” but I do know it deals with a young man, who in face of bad weather continues onward and upward into the Alps with a flag emblazoned with the word, “Excelsior!” The Italian Alpine society was […]
