Upcoming
October 23, 2026, 6:30pm at Pioneer Book in Provo, UT – Rock Canyon Poets 10th anniversary reading for Utah Humanities Book Festival.
March 4 – 7, 2026 – AWP Conference & Bookfair, Baltimore, MD Launch Your Dream: Get That Lit Org Off the Ground
Speaker(s)
-Joel Lesses, Speaker
-Karen Schubert, Moderator
-Michael Khandelwal, The Muse Writers Center, Speaker
-Phil Memmer, The YMCA Writers Voice, Speaker
-Trish Hopkinson, Speaker
Recent Online Events/Readings
August 20, 2025 – Lit Radio interview with Trish Hopkinson on KAFM 88.1
Past Events/Readings
September 19, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (EDT) via Zoom – Friday Free Write, International Women’s Writing Guild, register free here.
September 12, 2025 at 7pm MT – Trish Hopkinson, Lisa Connors, and Rock Canyon Poets, Lithic Bookstore and Gallery, Fruita, CO
June 20, 2025 at 3pm – Rock Canyon Poets reading at the Utah Arts Festival
April 1, 2025 at 7pm MT – Bardic Trails Open Mic featuring Trish Hopkinson (virtual)
January 13 – 17, 2025 Chacala Lit Festival, Chacala Mexico, poetry workshops instructor and featured poet.
The ticketed workshop will run January 13, 2025 – January 16, 2025 from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM culminating with a Public Poetry reading on January 17, 2025 @ 7:00 PM (This is a free event). Time and place to be announced.
September 7, 2024, 6pm MT – Feature reader in Helper, UT
August 20, 2024, 7pm CT – Feature reader for Black Dog Poetry Open Mic virtual event
July 16, 2024, 7pm – Feature reader for Word Up! at Copeka Coffee in Grand Junction, CO
June 30, 2024, 3:45 – 4:10pm at The Round stage – Feature reader at the Utah Arts Festival, in Salt Lake City, UT
June 23, 2024, 2pm ET – Feature reader for the International Women’s Writing Guild’s Open Mic (virtual)
May 2, 2024, 6pm MT – Feature reader for Ziggies Open Mic (virtual). For more information or to register for this free event, email Julie Cummings (jcummings@gmail.com).
April 26, 2024, 7pm – Feature reader for Poetry Pharmacy at Tree of Life Studios in Payson, UT
April 23, 2024, 6:00 – 8:30pm MT – Ziggies Open Mic Workshop: In this virtual workshop, we’ll read and learn about epistolary poems or poems as letters, including time to generate poems using several prompts. For more information or to register (small $5 fee) email Julie Cummings (jcummings@gmail.com).
April 18, 2024, 7pm – Feature for Literary Living Room at Sherbino Theater in Ridgway, CO
April 17, 2024, 6:30pm – Feature reader for Stories & Poems at Lone Cone Library in Norwood, CO
March 21, 2024, 7pm – A Godless Ascends Book Launch at Lithic Bookstore & Gallery in Fruita, CO with special guest Alysse Kathleen McCanna!
September 7, 2023 – Poetry Palooza Fall Panel–IWWG virtual event
February 7, 2023 – Poetry Palooza Spring Panel–IWWG virtual event
June 25, 2022, 5pm – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah Arts Festival – Feature reading on the WordFest stage
September 13, 2022 – Poetry Palooza Fall Panel–IWWG virtual event
February 1, 2022 – Poetry Palooza Spring Panel–IWWG virtual event
March 26, 2022 – AWP (virtual)
Event Title: Fostering a Virtual Poetic Community
Scheduled Day: Saturday, March 26, 2022
Scheduled Time: 3:20 PM–4:20 PM ET
Location: #AWP22 Virtual Conference Platform
February 8, 2022 – Feature reader for Black Dog Poetry Open Mic virtual event
August 27 – 29, 2021 – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah Arts Festival – Feature reading on the Big Mouth stage, more info soon.
July 23, 2021 – Virtual – Writing Our Way Forward via IWWG Summer Conference from 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET: “How to Choose Publications for Your Poetry
with Trish Hopkinson” Register here.
Dove Song: A Poetry Reading to Celebrate Mother’s Day – May 1, 2021 6pm Pacific Time. Register here, Facebook event here. “A virtual reading to celebrate Mother’s Day, the Divine Feminine, and three years of Dove Song. As we approach Mother’s Day, you may be fully vaccinated, or a long way off, but we can still gather via Zoom to honor mothers, women, and the Sacred Feminine through poetry.”
April 18, 2021, Sunday 1:00 – 11:00 am Mountain Time – Virtual Event (YouTube) – Utah Poetry Festival Panel I: Writing in Community, Writing–perhaps especially writing poetry?–is famously understood to be a solitary activity, but lots of writers find invaluable company in writing groups and writing friendships. This panel explores the many forms that writing communities take, and how writing in community aids the artist. With Lisa Bickmore, Star Coulbrooke, Trish Hopkinson, Jesse Parent. Moderated by Paisley Rekdal. More info an free registration here.
March 3 – 31, 2021, Wednesdays from 3:00 – 4:30 pm Eastern Time – Virtual Event – Write, Revise, Read and Submit Your Work with Trish Hopkinson via The International Women’s Writing Guild’s Digital Village workshops.
Wednesday Night Poetry: April 21, 2021: “Land Lock”
February 23, 2021, Tuesday at 7:30 pm Pacific Time – Virtual Event (Zoom) – The Cobalt Poets series, featuring Trish Hopkinson, followed by an open reading. More info on The Cobalt Poets here.
January 9, 2021, Saturday at 1:00 pm Pacific Time – Virtual Event (pre-register on Zoom) – Whale Road Review, 5-year anniversary reading, featuring Kelli Russell Agodon, Jennifer Givhan, Shemaiah Gonzalez, Trish Hopkinson, Charles Jensen, Allison E. Joseph, Luci Shaw, & more! More info here.
January 6, 2021 – Virtual Event (Facebook Video) – Wednesday Night Poetry hosted by Kai Coggin, featuring Chen Chen, Sarah M. Sala, Guillermo Filice Castro, and Trish Hopkinson. More info here.
November 10, 2020, Tuesday at 7:00 pm – Virtual Event (Zoom) – Inspired: Virtual Anthology Launch & Poetry Open Mic with Rock Canyon Poets, hosted by Trish Hopkinson, Editor-in-Chief
Wednesday Night Poetry: October 7, 2020: “Offspring”
Wednesday Night Poetry: August 26, 2020: “Things to Tell My Daughter”
Wednesday Night Poetry: August 12, 2020: “On the Rim of Depoe Bay”
Wednesday Night Poetry: August 6, 2020: “Selfies as a Broad-tailed Hummingbird”
Wednesday Night Poetry: July 15, 2020: “She-God”
Wednesday Night Poetry: April, 8, 2020: “Poem to Pluto’s Heart”
Wednesday Night Poetry: March 25, 2020: “Letter to Covid-19.”
Salt Lake City Art: March 24, 2020: “Earthquake//Corona”
KRCL RadioACTIVE: January 1, 2020 airing: “Scale of Life,” and “Ode to a Young Screech Owl”
March 4 – 7, 2020 – San Antonio, TX
AWP Conference
- Thursday, 11am – 3pm, conference check-in volunteer
- Friday, 11am – 12pm, AWP Writer to Writer Bookfair Booth
- Saturday, 7 – 9pm at Cherrity Bar “The End Will Not be Sugared: Contemporary Apocalypse Poetry” poetry reading
January 14, 2020 – Provo, UT – Rock Canyon Poets 5th Anniversary and Orogeny volume 5 release party, Pioneer Book, 6:30 – 8pm
January 12, 2020 – online webinar – IWWG Webinar, session presenter, “Submit Your Writing Like a Pro” 7 PM EST
November 2, 2019 – Fruita, CO – Rock Canyon Poets at Lithic Bookstore & Gallery, 7-9pm
October 26, 2019 – New York City – IWWG Big Apple Weekend – The Writer’s Arc – from Page to Publication, session presenter: “Where and How to Submit Your Poetry,” Saturday from 1 – 2:30 pm.
October 1 & 15, 2019 – Provo, UT – The Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents Inspired, a free community poetry writing workshop. Instructor and anthology editor-in-chief.
August 2019 – online – Finding the Writer Within session presenter – “Submit Your Writing Like a Pro”
June 20 – 23, 2019 – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah Arts Festival – Literary Arts program, Big Mouth stage, & WordFest coordinator; Feature reading
May 1, 2019 – Salt Lake City, UT – City Art Reading Series, SLC Downtown Library, feature reading with Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen, 7:00pm
April 27, 2019 – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah Poetry Festival, Poetry Outreach Panelist, reading with Utah State Poetry Society, Westminster College
April 11, 2019 – Salt Lake City, UT – READ LOCAL Onsite reading series, Finch Lane Gallery
April 4, 2019 – Helper, UT – Featured poetry reading
March 27 – 30, 2019 – Portland, OR (AWP) – AWP 2019 Conference, book signing at Lithic Press booth #6008, Saturday 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
March 13, 2019 – Salt Lake City, UT – City Art Reading Series, SLC Downtown Library, feature reading with Tacey Atsitty, 7:00pm
March 6, 2019 – 90.9 FM KRCL – Radioactive feature reading with Tacey Atsitty and Poetry Happens
Saturday, November 3, 2018 – Fruita, CO – Rock Canyon Poets at Lithic Bookstore & Gallery, 7-9pm
Saturday, October 27, 2018 – Provo, UT – Buzzards and Bees Festival, with Rock Canyon Poets & Utah Horror Writers Assoc. 6 – 8pm
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 – Salt Lake City, UT – City Art Reading Series with Rock Canyon Poets, 7:00pm
Tuesday, October 2 & 16, 2018 – Provo, UT – Inspired – community poetry writing workshop (instructor) in conjunction with Utah Humanities Book Festival (click here for more info)
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 @ 6:30pm – Telluride, CO – The Talking Gourds Poetry Club
Tuesday, September 17, 2018 @ 6:00pm – Norwood, CO – The Talking Gourds Poetry Club
Monday, September 10, 2018 – Mapleton, UT – Rock Canyon Poets at the Mapleton Farmers Market, 7:15 – 8:30pm
Monday, July 23, 2018 – Provo, UT – Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry reading
Friday, June 22, 2018 – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah Arts Festival with Rock Canyon Poets
Saturday, October 8, 2017 – Fruita, CO – Rock Canyon Poets at Lithic Bookstore & Gallery (photos & blog post)
Thursday, November 2, 2017 – Ridgway, CO – Open Bard Poetry Series
