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.
Prewrite. Draft. Revise. Edit. Publish. These are the five stages of the writing process. Whether or not you intend to publish your work, you want it to be its best expression of your intention. Wait. That was a big assumption. Do you? Do you want your poems, stories, […]
Prewrite. Draft. Revise. Edit. Publish. These are the five stages of the writing process. Whether or not you intend to publish your work, you want it to be its best expression of your intention. Wait. That was a big assumption. Do you? Do you want your poems, stories, […]
Every once in a while a new press with new ideas and amazing projects appears on the literary scene. Platypus Press is one of those. I've been nothing but impressed with their creativity and professionalism. They are an independent press based in England and seek to unearth innovative […]
The End Will Not be Sugared: Contemporary Apocalypse Poetry is a forthcoming anthology of contemporary poetry in the tradition of apocalyptic poems. Edited by Jennifer R. Hancock and Juan J. Morales, they are currently seeking submissions of poems with the theme of “the breakdown of society and its […]
On Loan From the Cosmos is a new “literary magazine celebrating the radical self-acceptance of everything that comprises who we are in our entirety” publishing art, writing, and interviews. Their mission is to “showcase our strength, capabilities and beauty in spite of, alongside, or because of our physical […]
The listings below are literary magazines/journals that specifically focus on the artists and writers in the LGBTQ+ community. There are many other literary magazines that support LGBTQ+ contributors. For a more general list of all-inclusive/feminist lit mags, check out my list here: Feminist Lit Mags and Journals. […]
Years ago while working on my MFA at Drew University, my mentor Ross Gay cautioned me of something he referred to as "poetic gesture." He wanted to warn me of moments when I was trying to make a poem sound like a poem. If you are trying to […]
Years ago while working on my MFA at Drew University, my mentor Ross Gay cautioned me of something he referred to as "poetic gesture." He wanted to warn me of moments when I was trying to make a poem sound like a poem. If you are trying to […]
I was fortunate to be teaching two classes online just as we as a nation started seeing the impact and the terrible potential of Covid-19 — one class called “Writing Winter Poems with Mary Oliver” and the other called “Hygge Poems: Writing the Cold Away with the Cozy […]
I’m honored to be included in 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine for their Poets in Pajamas National Poetry Month series. The series provides audio recordings of each poet reading one of their own poems as well as a reading of a poem by a poet they admire. I […]
