Trish Hopkinson
@trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social
Poet and Literary Advocate
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 47
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Thanks to Meg Eden Kuyatt @medenkuyatt.bsky.social for sharing a thought-provoking guest blog on finding inspiration for poetic imagery. buff.ly/b3uFvmF
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The Power of Image in Poetry – guest post by Meg Eden Kuyatt
A former pastor of mine argued that the Biblical first act of human speech was poetry: Adam calling Eve “bone of my bone/flesh of my flesh.” This experience of woman’s creation was so spectacular t…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Thanks to Meg Eden Kuyatt @medenkuyatt.bsky.social for sharing a thought-provoking guest blog on finding inspiration for poetic imagery. buff.ly/b3uFvmF
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The DIHP Team hopes you'll help celebrate our wide community of hardworking lit mags & their teams by checking into the annual @chillsubs.bsky.social 2025 best litmags poll! It's fun, informative, & helps your writing peers. <3 www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The DIHP Team hopes you'll help celebrate our wide community of hardworking lit mags & their teams by checking into the annual @chillsubs.bsky.social 2025 best litmags poll! It's fun, informative, & helps your writing peers. <3 www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Below you’ll find a curated selection of literary magazines and journals that welcome poetry on timely topics. Most of these journals do not charge submission fees (though a few may require small donations or have fees for contests), and all accept electronic submissions. buff.ly/PcQWfEb
11 lit mags/journals for current event poems (just updated!)
UPDATED: November 22, 2025 Poetry has always been a powerful tool for activism and awareness, and many literary magazines actively seek work that engages with current events. Below you’ll find a cu…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Below you’ll find a curated selection of literary magazines and journals that welcome poetry on timely topics. Most of these journals do not charge submission fees (though a few may require small donations or have fees for contests), and all accept electronic submissions. buff.ly/PcQWfEb
I’m thrilled and deeply honored that my poem “Clutch” was selected for today’s Poem-a-Day series by The Academy of American Poets, curated by the incredible Tacey M. Atsitty.
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My poem “Clutch” selected for Poets.org Poem-a-Day series!
Thank You, Tacey M. Atsitty, and The Academy of American Poets I’m thrilled and deeply honored that my poem “Clutch” was selected for today’s Poem-a-Day series by The Academy of American Poets, cur…
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November 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I’m thrilled and deeply honored that my poem “Clutch” was selected for today’s Poem-a-Day series by The Academy of American Poets, curated by the incredible Tacey M. Atsitty.
Read more below about how to subscribe or donate to support this valuable program. buff.ly/RgHaver
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Read more below about how to subscribe or donate to support this valuable program. buff.ly/RgHaver
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Naming the beast, the heaviness of the future, & more with @webbish6.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social 3/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 46
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Naming the beast, the heaviness of the future, & more with @webbish6.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social 3/3
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Special thanks to Marcella Remund for this thoughtful guest post on later-life publishing and poetry writing. buff.ly/tso4Etd
In Defense of Later-Life Publishing – guest post by Marcella Remund
Wallace Stevens, one of my favorite poets, published his first book of poetry, Harmonium, when he was 44 and didn’t publish another collection until Ideas of Order, when he was 57. He went on to pu…
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November 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Special thanks to Marcella Remund for this thoughtful guest post on later-life publishing and poetry writing. buff.ly/tso4Etd
@rogueagent.bsky.social is “a journal for work that inhabits the body” publishing poetry and visual art online monthly under the umbrella of Sundress Publications. For more info, see my interview with Editor in Chief Jill Khoury and Assistant Editor Jen Stein below. buff.ly/fBvUfV2
NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Rogue Agent, DEADLINE: Always Open
Rogue Agent is “a journal for work that inhabits the body” publishing poetry and visual art online monthly under the umbrella of Sundress Publications. They just published their 128th i…
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November 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
@rogueagent.bsky.social is “a journal for work that inhabits the body” publishing poetry and visual art online monthly under the umbrella of Sundress Publications. For more info, see my interview with Editor in Chief Jill Khoury and Assistant Editor Jen Stein below. buff.ly/fBvUfV2
Thimble Literary Magazine is an online lit mag, featuring art, poetry, and short prose. They publish issues quarterly. See my interview with Editor-in-Chief Nadia Arioli and a link to submission guidelines below. buff.ly/JymK4XS
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NO FEE submission call + editor interview – Thimble, DEADLINE: Dec. 31, 2025
Thimble is an online literary magazine, featuring art, poetry, and short prose. They publish issues quarterly. “At Thimble Literary Magazine, we believe armor can be found in the oddest of pl…
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November 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Thimble Literary Magazine is an online lit mag, featuring art, poetry, and short prose. They publish issues quarterly. See my interview with Editor-in-Chief Nadia Arioli and a link to submission guidelines below. buff.ly/JymK4XS
#poetrycommunity #litmags
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Thanks to Deborah and Dia for this guest blog post on crafting poem endings.
"The End. Wouldn’t it be a relief if you could just end a poem like that? Every reader would know the poem had resoundingly concluded. However, most of us would like to be more subtle with poetic craft..." buff.ly/56xniJ5
"The End. Wouldn’t it be a relief if you could just end a poem like that? Every reader would know the poem had resoundingly concluded. However, most of us would like to be more subtle with poetic craft..." buff.ly/56xniJ5
Nails: Craft Tools for Nailing Down the End of a Poem – guest post by Deborah Bacharach & Dia Calhoun
The End. Wouldn’t it be a relief if you could just end a poem like that? Every reader would know the poem had resoundingly concluded. However, most of us would like to be more subtle with our poeti…
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October 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Thanks to Deborah and Dia for this guest blog post on crafting poem endings.
"The End. Wouldn’t it be a relief if you could just end a poem like that? Every reader would know the poem had resoundingly concluded. However, most of us would like to be more subtle with poetic craft..." buff.ly/56xniJ5
"The End. Wouldn’t it be a relief if you could just end a poem like that? Every reader would know the poem had resoundingly concluded. However, most of us would like to be more subtle with poetic craft..." buff.ly/56xniJ5
The Penn Review was founded in 1951, making it the oldest continuously published literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. They are known for their fast response time, and got back to me on my submissions within a few days. buff.ly/UvOjZV6
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NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Penn Review, DEADLINE: Nov. 7, 2025
The Penn Review was founded in 1951, making it the oldest continuously published literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. It was very exciting to have my poems “Three MiraclesR…
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October 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Penn Review was founded in 1951, making it the oldest continuously published literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. They are known for their fast response time, and got back to me on my submissions within a few days. buff.ly/UvOjZV6
#poetrycommunity #litmags #WritingCommunity
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Special thanks to Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social and Sally Brown for this delightful guest blog post: Monsters in the Window: Celebrating a Year of What We Do In The Hollows. Read more about this poetry and illustration collaboration: buff.ly/v25raAg
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Monsters in the Window: Celebrating a Year of What We Do In The Hollows – guest post by Renée K. Nicholson
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 …
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October 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Special thanks to Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social and Sally Brown for this delightful guest blog post: Monsters in the Window: Celebrating a Year of What We Do In The Hollows. Read more about this poetry and illustration collaboration: buff.ly/v25raAg
#poetry #HalloweenPoems
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@thequasarreview.bsky.social is a global literary magazine dedicated to publishing voices and broadcasting them across the world. They have a fast response time within a month. See my interview with founder/editor Zacharia Bahcivan and a link to their submission guidelines below.
NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Quasar Review, DEADLINE: Always open
The Quasar Review is a global literary magazine dedicated to publishing people’s voices and broadcasting them across the world. It exists as a publisher for both accomplished and amateur crea…
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October 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
@thequasarreview.bsky.social is a global literary magazine dedicated to publishing voices and broadcasting them across the world. They have a fast response time within a month. See my interview with founder/editor Zacharia Bahcivan and a link to their submission guidelines below.
Many thanks to Wailing & Gnashing for publishing two of my poems: "Footnote to a Footnote" and "Unlikely Companion" which won the Utah Arts Festival IronPen competition last year. They are quick to respond, accept reprints, and are just the kindest folks.
2 poems published in Wailing & Gnashing, subs always open!
Many thanks to Wailing & Gnashing for publishing two of my poems: “Footnote to a Footnote” from my collection Footnote (Lithic Press, 2017) of response poems; and “Unlikely Co…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Many thanks to Wailing & Gnashing for publishing two of my poems: "Footnote to a Footnote" and "Unlikely Companion" which won the Utah Arts Festival IronPen competition last year. They are quick to respond, accept reprints, and are just the kindest folks.
Thanks to Jeanne Griggs for this guest blog post about "after" poems. "Writing an after poem is an attempt to arouse the memory of that previous poem in order to reveal another perspective on it or even to twist and turn it into something quite different."
What is an “after” poem? – guest post by Jeanne Griggs
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…
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September 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Thanks to Jeanne Griggs for this guest blog post about "after" poems. "Writing an after poem is an attempt to arouse the memory of that previous poem in order to reveal another perspective on it or even to twist and turn it into something quite different."
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Poets musing on (among other things) how to keep going in challenging times @kent-nj.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @grantclauser.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social 3/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 38
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Poets musing on (among other things) how to keep going in challenging times @kent-nj.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @grantclauser.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social 3/3
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The events of September 10 prompt @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social Trish Hopkinson to write “Dear Judy,” an epistolary duplex poem. @newversenews.bsky.social newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/09/dear... @writingcommunity.bsky.social @rodmannix.bsky.social
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DEAR JUDY
The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.
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September 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The events of September 10 prompt @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social Trish Hopkinson to write “Dear Judy,” an epistolary duplex poem. @newversenews.bsky.social newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/09/dear... @writingcommunity.bsky.social @rodmannix.bsky.social
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Wailing & Gnashing is a new poetry journal for outsiders. They are always open, accept reprints, and while standard response time in the future will be around three months, you can expect much faster response times for their first upcoming issue. Read more in the interview here:
NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Wailing & Gnashing, DEADLINE: Always open
Wailing & Gnashing is a new poetry journal for outsiders. They are always open, accept reprints, and while standard response time in the future will be around three months, you can expect much …
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September 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wailing & Gnashing is a new poetry journal for outsiders. They are always open, accept reprints, and while standard response time in the future will be around three months, you can expect much faster response times for their first upcoming issue. Read more in the interview here:
Thanks to Loretta Bushell of Reedsy for this guest blog post on unique poetic forms and why you should experiment with forms, including a link to a list of 100 different forms on Writer's Digest. buff.ly/mnidQfL #poetrycommunity
Why you should experiment with a new poetic form – guest post by Loretta Bushell
Humans are creatures of habit. It’s tempting to find one or two poetic forms you like and stick with them for the rest of your life. But don’t let yourself get complacent! No matter where you are o…
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September 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thanks to Loretta Bushell of Reedsy for this guest blog post on unique poetic forms and why you should experiment with forms, including a link to a list of 100 different forms on Writer's Digest. buff.ly/mnidQfL #poetrycommunity
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Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn.
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40
There are two lists below. The first is a detailed list of five lit mags that accept reprints. The second list is a longer list of over 200 markets that accept reprints and don't charge fees. Some are paying, most are not. Plus, two other resource lists for reprints! buff.ly/fmGtt3F #poetrycommunity
Where to submit reprints (just updated!)
If you have poetry or other writing which has been previously published, but the readership was low or perhaps it was only in print and not online, you may want to submit it to literary magazines a…
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September 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
There are two lists below. The first is a detailed list of five lit mags that accept reprints. The second list is a longer list of over 200 markets that accept reprints and don't charge fees. Some are paying, most are not. Plus, two other resource lists for reprints! buff.ly/fmGtt3F #poetrycommunity
Tell Tell Poetry recently posted a great where to submit list for the the next few months. It includes links to each submission opportunity, whether its a call or contest, deadlines, fees, payment, simultaneous submissions, and whether or not they accept reprints.
Where to submit your poems Sept – Nov, 2025 via Tell Tell Poetry
Tell Tell Poetry “is a poetry resource site dedicated to bringing you news about poetry, interviews with poets, and editing services.” They recently posted a great where to submit list for the the …
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September 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Tell Tell Poetry recently posted a great where to submit list for the the next few months. It includes links to each submission opportunity, whether its a call or contest, deadlines, fees, payment, simultaneous submissions, and whether or not they accept reprints.
It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by Melody Jones, president of Western Colorado Writers' Forum (WCWF) on KAFM 88.1 Grand Valley community radio near my home on the western slope of Colorado. Click below to listen. trishhopkinson.com/2025/09/06/l...
Lit Radio interview with Trish Hopkinson on KAFM 88.1
It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by Melody Jones, president of Western Colorado Writers’ Forum (WCWF) on KAFM 88.1 Grand Valley community radio near my home on the western slope of Colorad…
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September 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by Melody Jones, president of Western Colorado Writers' Forum (WCWF) on KAFM 88.1 Grand Valley community radio near my home on the western slope of Colorado. Click below to listen. trishhopkinson.com/2025/09/06/l...
Luna Luna Magazine is a literary journal devoted to publishing lush poetics and the dark ecstatic. They are always open unless otherwise specified on their website and publish eleven poets each month. Interview and guidelines in the post below.. trishhopkinson.com/2025/09/01/n...
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NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Luna Luna Magazine, DEADLINE: Always open
Luna Luna Magazine is a literary journal devoted to publishing lush poetics and the dark ecstatic. They are always open unless otherwise specified on their website and publish eleven poets each mon…
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September 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Luna Luna Magazine is a literary journal devoted to publishing lush poetics and the dark ecstatic. They are always open unless otherwise specified on their website and publish eleven poets each month. Interview and guidelines in the post below.. trishhopkinson.com/2025/09/01/n...
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Calul Journal is a new journal of poetry and art. “Hakol Calul” in Hebrew means “everything is included.” Calul poets make up an inclusive and expansive community. See my interview with editor Rachel Neve-Midbar and a link to their submission guidelines below.
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NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Calul Journal, DEADLINE: Always open
Calul Journal is a new journal of poetry and art. “Hakol Calul” in Hebrew means “everything is included.” Calul poets make up an inclusive and expansive community. At Calul …
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September 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Calul Journal is a new journal of poetry and art. “Hakol Calul” in Hebrew means “everything is included.” Calul poets make up an inclusive and expansive community. See my interview with editor Rachel Neve-Midbar and a link to their submission guidelines below.
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