A list of my all my published poems is below. Many are available to read online. Please also consider purchasing from, or donating to, these amazing literary organizations, presses, magazines, and journals, who have recently supported and published my work.

Recently published poems:

Confession to a Woodhouse’s Toad – Whale Road Review

Dear Judy (extended duplex) – Solstice

On the Rim of Depoe Bay – Rogue Agent

Clutch – Poets.org poem-a-day series

“Footnote to a Footnote” and “Unlikely Companion” – Wailing & Gnashing

Dear Judy “Today a successful assassination” – New Verse News

A Way In – Twenty Bellows

I know I Have Loved Patricia – NonBinary Review, Zoetic Press

My Books and Anthologies:

My first full length book entitled A Godless Ascends published by Lithic Press was officially released to celebrate the vernal equinox, March 19, 2024. Tremendous thanks to editors Danny Rosen and Kyle Harvey for the impeccable design and quality printing. The book is divided into four sections with beautiful artwork by Nancy Smith, including the cover art.

A GODLESS ASCENDS is the powerful new collection of poems by Trish Hopkinson. In this intensely personal collection, the poet’s close attention to language propels the narrative and brings its scenes to life: I see her mother writing essays in college; I see the poet telling her daughter, do not mistake urgency for love; I see her watching over her injured son in his hospital bed. These poems produce an aura of the mystical nature of making a family and keeping it together while remaining true to the poet’s creative life.

Praise for A Godless Ascends:

“Like the screech owl, Trish Hopkinson’s work hardens itself in order to keep its insides soft. There’s a Plathian urgency to these poems, reminding us that memory has taste buds, ancestry is complicated and life, like poetry, is grounded in physicality.” –Wendy Videlock, author of Wise to the West

“A Godless Ascends offers such a visceral reading experience, full of line breaks that turn surprising corners to reveal vivid scenes and the messy realities of life as a young daughter, intense adolescent, wife, and then mother to children who will grow up and move out as well. In the first “She-God” poem, the speaker says, “she is / a whole being godless / —she birthed two / no three— / if she chooses to / count herself / & she does.” And Trish Hopkinson does a brilliant job of counting herself and her family in these autobiographical poems. I can’t wait to share this book and read it again myself!” –Katie Manning, editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review

“Think how loss pulls language from us until / it swallows everything,” says the speaker in Trish Hopkinson’s first full-length collection. If there’s no script for loss, and no script for motherhood—and if childhood is “a tattoo installed by a convict on the back of [my] neck”—then these poems provide a provocative blueprint that outline the speaker’s most epiphanic experiences (whether happy or harrowing). The speaker discards what doesn’t suit and takes stock of what remains: a martyred dragonfly (as mother), children with names like poems, a praying screech owl, a softened pomegranate. “I leave the blood nest: ancestry does not warrant, / association does not bind, me to breast // or covert—sparrows tumble from my throat,  / let loose, flutter around the room… I clasp / my jaw and refuse to let them // back in…—not even a sparrow / falls to the ground.” Hopkinson resurrects some of our deepest convictions about what in life is worth celebrating in this collection that  ends—quite literally—in a miracle.” –Ellen Elder, Co-Poetry Editor for Literary Mama

Reviews:

• A Review by Dayna Patterson in Mom Egg Review
• Review of A Godless Ascends by Kristiane Weeks-Rogers in Tinderbox Poetry Journal

Other books and anthologies:

Reconstructed Happiness, Origami Poems Project, microchapbook, free printable download. Read the original announcement from June 2020.	Almost Famous (e-chapbook, free to download, Yavanika Press, 2019). Read the original announcement re: my fourth chapbook, just released Nov. 22, 2019.
Footnote ($12 free shipping, Lithic Press, 2017). You can read all about how the book came to be in my interview with Nancy Chen Long in her series Chapbook Chat.	From The Ashes:  An international anthology of womxn's poetry edited by Amanda McLeod & Mela Blust of Animal Heart Press. All proceeds from the sale of this anthology will be donated to international womxn’s charities. Print copies $15 and Kindle copies $4.99.
Women Speak: Portraits, Poetry, and Prose of the Feminine Experience, Nancy Smith Fine Art. $24.99 in full color 8 x 11.	Rock Canyon Poets: Orogeny, Vol. 1. 2, 3 $5.00. I’m honored to be the co-founder of this non-profit group of Utah poets, as well as Editor-in-Chief of our annual poetry collection.
Shabda Press: Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands. $25.00. Proceeds from the anthology are being donated to the Women’s Center in Downtown Los Angeles.	Noctua Review: Issue IX. Free online. Noctua Review is the annual art and literary magazine produced by the Southern Connecticut State University MFA program.
Sable Books: Red Sky. $19.99. All proceeds will be directed to the Global Fund for Women.	Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing: The Art of Creating, Winter 2015 issue, 1.4. $5.00.

Published Poems

Confession to a Woodhouse’s Toad – Whale Road Review

Dear Judy (extended duplex) – Solstice

On the Rim of Depoe Bay – Rogue Agent

Clutch – Poets.org poem-a-day series

“Footnote to a Footnote” and “Unlikely Companion” – Wailing & Gnashing

Dear Judy “Today a successful assassination” – New Verse News

A Way In – Twenty Bellows

I know I Have Loved Patricia – NonBinary Review, Zoetic Press

“First Sighting” and “Waiting Around” along with my commentary about the poems and an audio reading – NOMAD

“What of the Work?” – Citron Review (nominated for Best of the Net 2025)

B-Movie – Maudlin House

“Inner Patina” – commission for Grand Junction Creates Sculpted Words program

“Aftermath: ~48 Hours,” “Intensive Care,” “To My Unconscious Son,” and ” “Back to Life” – Does It Have Pockets

Ex-Ballerina – ONE ART: a journal of poetry

Expectancy and I Am Meg White – The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

The Hospital Bed Floats and Anniversary – Anti-Heroin Chic

Lazarus Women – OyeDrum

“Breast-giver,” “Preparation,” and “Quentin Tarantino Loves the Grateful Dead” – Does It Have Pockets

I Know I Have Loved Patricia – TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics

Nocturne to Uterus – The Gravity of the Thing

Promiscuity – They Call Us “Sluts & Prudes”

“Couples Therapy: Duncan Yo-yo Speaks to its String” and “Scale of Life” –  POETiCA REViEW

Uprooted – Cultural Daily, finalist for the 2021 Jack Grape Poetry Prize; reprinted in NonBinary Review

Bodies are Secrets, – Oyedrum

Ode to a Young Screech Owl – Moment Poetry

Gathering of the Salt – Utah Department of Heritage & Arts

All Words for a Woman – They Call Us

I Do Not Wait – Writers Resist

She-God – Rise Up Review

Paused – Juniper – A Poetry Journal

I want to order room service – What Rough Beast, Indolent Books

Dragonfly Daughter – Literary Mama (+Pushcart prize nomination)

Quentin Tarantino Loves The Grateful Dead – Drunk Monkeys

Things to Tell My Daughter – Gyroscope Review

Resurrection Party – Voicemail Poems

Calve – From the Ashes anthology, Animal Heart Press

Other Ways – Glass: A Journal of Poetry

glass-bottom boat – Juniper – A Poetry Journal

In my mother’s mouth – The Rumpus: Enough series

Three Miracles – The Penn Review

autumn mane – Women Speak

carambola, Ascent – Isacoustic

I smoked marijuana for the first time with a 13-year-old boy, South Side, A Leveling – Cultural Weekly

Volition – SWWIM

Goodbye Maytree, after Annie Dillard – Wild Voices, vol. 2

My matter – Whale Road Review

Bone Music – Contrary Magazine

Footnote to a Footnote, Whimper – Crooked Teeth

Resurrection Party – Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Bekah Steimel blog w/ Interview

sideways, Interrogation – The Light Ekphrastic

Perched – Utah Life July/August 2018

Redacted – Erase-Transform Poetry Project

hurricane, Not my flag – Tuck Magazine

A Man Misplaced – Wildness

The Next State, Denial, What –Califragile

Preparation – The Penn Review

An Echo – Intersections: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose

Three atheists and a Mormon walk into a cafe (collaboration with Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen) – Crab Fat Magazine

Reconstructed Happiness – Winning Writers

Mixed tape – Crab Fat: Best of Year Three

Footnote to a Footnote – Chagrin River Review (anniversary issue)

predator – ellipsis

And Finished knowing – then – – Pretty Owl Poetry

Breastgiver – BARED: Contemporary Art & Poetry on Bras & Breasts

The Next State, Denial, and What. Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands.

Bruised, Salvage great love at all cost, White, and We Need Language. Wild Horses, Women on Fire 2016 (+Pushcart prize nomination)

Sonnet Zero – Noctua

Notes from Owl Bar’s Diary – Volatile When Mixed, Utah Life March/April 2018

Strange Verses – NonBinary Review

Mixed tape – Crab Fat Magazine

Offspring – Stirring (Motherhood issue)

Temple City listens to Orlando – Quail Bell

Your scarlet – Amethyst Arsenic

Ars Moriendi and Whimper – The Chaotic Review

South Side – Stirring, Poetry Super Highway – Poet of the Week

Just a pocket memory – Sonic Boom

Religion Rhythm, Goodbye Maytree, and Off the Cuff – #thesideshow

Calf Creek – Verse-Virtual

What – #thesideshow

Crimes of Compassion – Window Cat Press

Dis-ease – Verse-Virtual

Madonna’s Vagina – #thesidehow

China Doll – Silver Birch Press

To the Mess on the Floor, aka My Poetry – Snapdragon

Closure – Sonic Boom, Verse-Virtual

Weeping Willow – Verse-Virtual, Utah Life November/December 2018

Memory Therapy – Verse-Virtual

We all got a secret side – Drunk Monkeys

crevasse moon – Drunk Monkeys

Blue Daydream – Drunk Monkeys (orig. published by Straight Forward)

My Monkey Grammarian – Verse-Virtual (orig. published in Desde Hong Kong: poets in conversation with Octavio Paz)

Pearl at the Studio Mic – Drunk Monkeys Anthology, Drunk Monkeys Writer of the Month, Verse-Virtual, orig. published in Utah Sings: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry

The Eyes of Life – The Center for Victims of Torture

Jules Talks to Jules – Drunk Monkeys

Wouldn't a flyswatter be easier – Drunk Monkeys, Poetry Super Highway – Poet of the Week, Utah Life September/October 2018

The things I've done do not define the person I am – Drunk Monkeys

Trash Bag Burial – Storm Cycle

Christ of the Abyss – Verse-Virtual, orig. published by Cultured Vultures

Denial –The Fem

Corked –Verse-Virtual

Eurydice’s Cardinal / A Leveling – Red Sky,The Light Ekphrastic, “A Leveling” orig. published by Wicked Banshee Press

Because I am oldest – Me, as a Child Poetry Series

The Day We Found a Meadow and Played Frisbee Buck Naked / Mars Haiku –  Petals in the Pan

Use Simultaneously – The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society

Waiting Around – Voicemail Poems, PoetryPasta, Motherhood May Cause Drowsiness, East Coast Literary Review, Verse-Virtual (orig. published by Wicked Banshee Press)

Cherry Colored / Sex and Light – Verse-Virtual

Trash Bag Burial – Storm Cycle

Kerouac’s Scroll / Stemless – Poetry Super Highway

Spicy/Afternoon Love-making/You Fit/Reformation – Verse-Virtual

Whimper/Barbershop Protest – Vagabonds: Anthology of the Mad Ones

You’ll Feel Unstoppable –The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society

Footnote to a Footnote – Chagrin River Review (orig.), Burningword Literary Journal, Verse-Virtual,

How D’ya Like Them Apples? – JAB

Prima Facie / The day you were born – Switch (The Difference)

Lonely Soup – Eat Genius, Verse-Virtual

Reconstructed Happiness – I am Waiting Series

In a Room Made of Poetry – Found Poetry Review, Volume 8

Breast-giver – Thank You for Swallowing, Degenerates: Voices for Peace, (orig. published in Reconnaissance Magazine)

The 13th Sign of the Zodiac – Mythic Poetry Series

Unpassed/Goodbye Maytree – Verse-Virtual

Pressed Railroad About the Truth – In Transit: Poetry of People on the Move

Melting / Worlding –Verse-Virtual

I am the Bride – Celebrity Free Verse Poetry Series

Barbershop Protest – The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society

A Painting of Me/Mouth Open to the Sky/Dawn/Ode to Endings/The Swing –Verse-Virtual

203 Amity – Verse-Virtual

Broken Hearts Buried Here – La Bloom, Found Poetry Review

Adventures of the Farmhouse on Route 6/How to Put a Book Back in Its Place –Verse-Virtual

Empty Sockets – Tic Toc anthology

A Poet Searches for Sex in the Salt Lake Tribune/About Being –The Salt Lake Tribune

Espresso Noir/Mornings (a haiku series)– Something’s Brewing anthology

News lays flat – Haiku Journal