A POSSIBLE AND BEAUTIFUL SOUND

Well, I have to say — it’s been a crazy month!  I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be attending UC Irvine’s MFA program for poetry starting this fall.  Living in California has already been so inspiring, and I couldn’t be happier that we’ll get to stay here for another few years at least — and that I’ll get to learn from Irvine’s incredibly talented writers <3

I also have poetry forthcoming in a few more journals, including Valparaiso Poetry Review and The Carolina Quarterly.  And the new issue of Toad is out, with poems by Matthew Olzmann, Sean Brown, some other truly amazing poets, and moi! Check out “Proof of Proposition 2: The Long Engagement” at http://toadthejournal.com/issue-31/suzanne-hopcroft/ and more poems and stories at http://toadthejournal.com/.

Also, news!  I found out the other day that The Normal School will be publishing one of my poems — can’t wait to see the fiction and the other poems in the issue <3

Hey guys!  Check out ILK’s awesome new Apocalypse issue here and my apocalypse poems here!

I don’t usually post as much about academic news here, but I have to just take a second to spotlight an edited collection that I’m a part of—titled Children’s Literature and New York City—that is being published by Routledge on September 1 of this year! It’s going to be a really fascinating collection: fourteen articles on children’s and young adult fiction set in one of my favorite cities (and my home for almost nine years before I moved to California). If you’re at a university, hopefully your library will eventually have this book in its stacks, and if you’re interested in children’s and YA lit, you can check out essays by Katie Trumpener (a Yale prof who’s a giant in the field), yours truly, and others! (Look here for the full list.) If our work proves even half as fun to read as my essay was to write, I’ll be happy….

What’s the positive version of the saying “When it rains, it pours”?  When it gets sunny, it gets really, really sunny? 

Well anyway, I’m super excited to say that I now have two poems forthcoming in Whiskey Island.  One of the things that makes me happiest about this is that Whiskey Island seems to have a knack for publishing super cool women writers; in a single issue in 2010, they featured Maureen Alsop, Sarah J. Sloat, and Erika L. Sánchez (some of whose other work you can find here, here, and here, respectively, in case you’re not familiar with their awesomeness.  Anyone who can make the ghazal as sexy as Sloat does in Linebreak gets my vote.)  So, I think this calls for a SoCal beach day celebration!

I’m very happy to say that I have a poem forthcoming in The Southern Humanities Review this year.  This past summer, SHR published work by the very awesome Jacob Newberry (read some of Newberry’s recent poetry here) and David Salner (ditto for Salner here), among others; I am beyond flattered to be in their company!

Oh, and how could I forget to thank ASU’s Superstition Review for nominating me for a Pushcart?!  I’m honored to be nominated together with Erin Elizabeth Smith, who just published my poem “Now I Dream of Beyond” in her wonderful magazine Stirring.  Check out Erin’s awesome poem “Fables” here.

Excited to share the best few months of writing news I’ve had yet: I have poems forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Harpur Palate, and Drunken Boat!  It’s going to be a really lovely spring, and here in balmy CA, it doesn’t even feel like winter….  Lots to be grateful for this Christmas!

So, I’ve been MIA for a while — but now, after summer in the heartland and a wholesome American road trip that took me to paradisaical southern California, where I’m writing now, I’m back!  In celebration of that, I give you “Fluid Dynamics,” up today at Anderbo.

May, and we’re still waiting for the sun and air to act decent here in New York.  But at least there are new poems at FRiGG and THRUSH (thRUSh??), whose very name reminds us of the spring we’re missing.  (Sob!)  Console yourself — check out mine and the brilliant, sparkling others on a gray morning.