“after” poems – Trish Hopkinson

Monsters in the Window: Celebrating a Year of What We Do In The Hollows – guest post by Renée K. Nicholson

By Trish Hopkinson on October 17, 2025 • ( 1 Comment )

Last year, just in time for the spooky season, visual artist Sally Jane Brown and I produced an art and poetry book about West Virginia cryptids, What We Do In The Hollows. Because we’d been longtime collaborators in our day jobs, working together on Hollows was a natural […]

What is an “after” poem? – guest post by Jeanne Griggs

By Trish Hopkinson on September 28, 2025 • ( 1 Comment )

A poem with “after” and another poet’s name underneath the title is an “after” poem. A good example is Jane Zwart’s “All my Life I was a Bride married to Amazement,” after Mary Oliver’s “When Death Comes.” Identifying a previous poem that a new poem is “after” indicates […]