{"id":53597,"date":"2020-04-09T19:12:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T01:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=53597"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:32:53","slug":"trish-hopkinsons-letter-to-covid-19-and-a-reading-of-may-days-psalm-for-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/trish-hopkinsons-letter-to-covid-19-and-a-reading-of-may-days-psalm-for-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Trish Hopkinson’s “Letter to Covid-19” and a Reading of Meg Day’s “Psalm for July”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poet Trish Hopkinson at the Provo Pioneer Book Store for Utah Life Magazine, photograph by Savanna Richardson<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cPoetry is about trying to re-create an experience that, technically, can never happen again,\u201d Trish Hopkinson said in our profile<\/a> of the poet, blogger and literary arts advocate in April, 2019. \u201cIt\u2019s specific to the poet or the character they\u2019re writing through.\u201d<\/h4>\n

You can find Hopkinson’s work online at\u00a0SelfishPoet.com<\/a>\u00a0and provisionally in Utah, where she runs the regional poetry group\u00a0Rock Canyon Poets<\/a>\u00a0and folds poems to fill Poemball machines for\u00a0Provo Poetry<\/a>.\u00a0In response to the current circumstances \u2014 an experience we all hope will never happen again \u2014 Hopkinson has written the epistolary poem \u201cLetter to Covid-19,\u201d which she shares with our audience in honor of National Poetry Month:<\/h4>\n\nhttp:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Letter-to-Covid-19-by-Trich-Hopkinson_1-2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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We also asked Hopkinson to choose a poet she admires and read from her work:<\/h4>\n

It was a pleasure to look back over my bookshelves and select a poet whose work I admire to share with 15 Bytes. I selected \u201cPsalm for July\u201d by Meg Day from the collection\u00a0Last Psalm at Sea Level<\/i>. Day is not only an exemplary poet, but an incredible and generous person and educator. Day has some roots in Utah, having lived here while studying for a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. I won\u2019t pretend that I can do this poem justice, in the way Day does when reading the work. I encourage everyone to find some of Day’s readings on YouTube. You can watch Day read the title poem from the same collection\u00a0here.<\/h4>\nhttp:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Psalm-for-July-by-Meg-Day_1-2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Trish Hopkinson’s poetry has been published in several lit mags and journals, including\u00a0Tinderbox, Glass Poetry Press, and The Penn Review<\/i>; her third chapbook\u00a0Footnote\u00a0<\/i><\/a>was published by Lithic Press in 2017, and her most recent e-chapbook,\u00a0Almost Famous<\/em><\/a>\u00a0,was published by Yavanika Press in 2019, and is available as a free download. Hopkinson will happily answer to labels such as atheist, feminist, and empty nester; and enjoys traveling, live music, and craft beer.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPoetry is about trying to re-create an experience that, technically, can never happen again,\u201d Trish Hopkinson said in our profile of the poet, blogger and literary arts advocate in April, 2019. \u201cIt\u2019s specific to the poet or the character they\u2019re writing through.\u201d You can find Hopkinson’s work online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3702],"tags":[2095,3392],"class_list":["post-53597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literary-arts","category-poets-in-pajamas","tag-meg-day","tag-trish-hopkinson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trishhopkinson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 13:01:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97461,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53597\/revisions\/97461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}