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 just went to the kitchen to put my coffee mug in the sink and the mesh drain filter was full of assorted debris: food scraps, a chunk of cat food, and something I can't identify. Yuck! As I knocked the filter into the garbage can to clear […]
A big thank you to Diane Lockward for posting such a great list on her poetry blog! (It’s one less list for me to create.) The list provides links to each journal and reading periods. She recently updated it to include even more journals, so this is a […]
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 a boutique publisher based in England and seek to unearth innovative […]
So excited to have my poem “glass-bottom boat” published in Juniper – A Poetry Journal’s current Summer 2019 issue. The issue includes a lovely variety of poems and is worth spending some time reading through. This year has been a whirlwind of Utah Arts Festival coordination as their Literary […]
So excited to have my poem “glass-bottom boat” published in Juniper – A Poetry Journal’s current Summer 2019 issue. The issue includes a lovely variety of poems and is worth spending some time reading through. This year has been a whirlwind of Utah Arts Festival coordination as their Literary […]
"What You Need to Know About Me" is an exciting new anthology (published by The Hawkins Project, co-founded by Dave Eggers) that highlights the experiences of young people (ages 11-24) who have immigrated from one country to another. The International Alliance of Youth Writing Centers was conceived in […]
"What You Need to Know About Me" is an exciting new anthology (published by The Hawkins Project, co-founded by Dave Eggers) that highlights the experiences of young people (ages 11-24) who have immigrated from one country to another. The International Alliance of Youth Writing Centers was conceived in […]
My review of Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal was just published on 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine. If you’re interested in writing reviews, check out this post of Journals That Publish Poetry Book Reviews by Diane Lockward. You can browse through some of the reviews being published to get a feel […]
Former People is an international online literary and art journal publishing continuously throughout the year. They are open for submissions of poetry, flash fiction, non-fiction, interviews, reviews, multimedia, and artwork. I wanted to know more about how and why this journal began, so I asked co-founder and Managing […]
I’m very humbled to have my poem “In my mother’s mouth” published in The Rumpus for their ENOUGH series. Make sure not to miss the other stunning work in this week’s post–poems by Kathleen Hellen and Elana Lev Friedland. ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a […]
