Trish Hopkinson is a poet, blogger, and advocate for the literary arts. She was born in Missouri in 1972 and has resided in Utah County since childhood. She received a BS from UVU in English in 2013 and works as a product director for a local software company.
Her poetry has been published in several lit mags and journals, including Tinderbox, Glass Poetry Press, and The Penn Review; her third chapbook Footnote was published by Lithic Press in 2017, and her most recent e-chapbook Almost Famous was published by Yavanika Press in 2019. She has received poetry awards from the Utah State Poetry Society and the Utah Arts Festival, and her poetry website/blog has been featured by WordPress Discover and listed in Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites for Writers. Her website includes hundreds of interviews with literary magazines, journals, and presses with a focus of sharing information on how to write, publish, or participate in the larger poetry community. Hopkinson has presented workshops and webinars for The International Women’s Writing Guild and Finding the Writer Within and has participated in panels for the Utah Poetry Festival and the Utah State Poetry Society.
Hopkinson is one of two alternating literary arts program coordinators for the Utah Arts Festival, co-founder and director of Rock Canyon Poets since 2014, a regional poetry group with over 50 members, annual members retreat, monthly reading series, and two anthologies published annually since 2014: Orogeny, a collection of Rock Canyon Poets work; and Inspired, a collection from the community poetry writing workshop she teaches every year with support from Utah Humanities. She co-founded Provo Poetry in 2015 to feature Utah poets in Poemball vending machines with three permanent locations in Provo and Salt Lake City. Provo Poetry and Rock Canyon Poets have been featured on KSL, KRCL, 15 Bytes, Slug Magazine, The Daily Herald, and City Weekly among others. In addition, Hopkinson curates Poetry Happens, a monthly feature on KRCL’s RadioACTive for which she announces poetry events and opportunities in Utah.
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Bibliography
- Almost Famous, Yavanika Press, 2019.
- Footnote, Lithic Press, 2017.
- Pieced Into Treetops, SLCC Community Writing Center, 2013.
- Emissions, self-published, 2012.
- Orogeny, Rock Canyon Poets, volumes 1 – 5, 2015 – 2019.
- Inspired: A Community Poetry Writing Experience, Rock Canyon Poets, volumes 1 – 5, 2015 – 2019.
Links
- 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine “Episode 13: Trish Hopkinson and Jennifer Tonge at READ LOCAL” (April 21, 2019)
- Sundress Academy for the Arts: SAFTAcast: “Episode 58: Trish Hopkinson!” (August 17, 2016)
- Poem feature reading, “Other Ways”
- Featured poet with Tacey Atsitty
- Rossiter, Shawn. “Trish Hopkinson: Attending to Poetry.” (April 8, 2019)
- “Read Local Sunday: Trish Hopkinson.” (August 20, 2017)
- Roka, Les. “Utah Arts Festival 2019: For literary arts’ 25th year, a new name – Wordfest – signals wider path in creative expression” (June 17, 2019)
- Roka, Les. “Utah Arts Festival 2019: What’s the new vibe for the 43rd edition? Many new faces, events at all venues” (June 6, 2019)
- Salt Lake City Weekly (online interview): Renshaw, Scott. “Three new area coordinators bring new ideas to the 2019 Utah Arts Festival” (June 19, 2019)
- Weist, Ellen Fagg. “Provo writer waxes poetic with words from Salt Lake Tribune stories.” (April 30, 2014). Print and online.
- Means, Sean P. “Provo poet finds inspiration in the Tribune.” The Cricket. (April 23, 2014)
- The Daily Herald (interview): “Poemball machine provides pops of poetry to Provo” (2016)
- KSL Interview (video interview/feature): “‘Poemball machine’ showcases local poets at Provo cafe” (2016)
- City Weekly (interview): “Poem in a Ball–Provo Poetry connects the Utah Valley community to verse, one quarter at a time” (2016)
- SLUG Magazine (interview): Call, Tyson. “Sound, Symbolism & Meter: Utah Poetry.” (November 30, 2017)
- Daily Herald (interview): “Rock Canyon Poets show nuclear power's cost in ‘Nuclear Impact Utah’” (May 6, 2017)
- Daily Herald (interview): “Newly formed Rock Canyon Poets perform at Utah Arts Fest” (June 25, 2015)