Hope Jordan

Writer

Concord, NH

Poet, short story and nonfiction writer. Interviews/reviews editor and a poetry editor for The Worcester Review. Find me in the woods, along the river, paddling the lake, or teaching writing.

Hope Jordan

Writer

Concord, NH

Poet, short story and nonfiction writer. Interviews/reviews editor and a poetry editor for The Worcester Review. Find me in the woods, along the river, paddling the lake, or teaching writing.

3 Poems inluding 3M, the F word and olives
to the 3M plant in Tilton for the manufacture of custom adhesives. we still call Condom Point for no reason other than 15 years ago. we brought gloves and a trash bag to tackle a heap of beer cans. quills, how you tried to pull them all out, how later the vet said. if left in they can work their mindless ways straight through a body,
Hole in the Head Review
Poetry
2 Poems in Twyckenham Notes
Black Creek Road shimmers with heat and new tar in front of the house we grew up in, where I learned the gold of you always having had my back
Poetry
Trees at the Curve in the Road
In the journal Stone Canoe, #14. Trees use fungal webs to speak underground
Poetry
Ode to a Luna
Bless the echolocators, the oilbirds and swiftlets, bless even the bats. so we witness the end and the beginning as you irradiate the darkness. Hope Jordan is a candidate for an MFA in Creative Writing at UMass Boston. She is the author of the chapbook The Day She Decided to Feed Crows (Cervena Barva Press, 2018).
Poetry
From the Outside it was Beautful
It wasn’t an apple the princess bit before she fell into sleep. It was a peach.
Poetry
Bridgeport Again
despair of music videos and FM radio.
Poetry
2018 Harold Taylor Prize
At the Confluence Trucks rumble-cross Route 4 where rivers off the railroad bridge. There are no significant rivers half his life in refugee camps. An empty bean can rolls to the rescue. Grass beside the path spikes dry and lavender. Freshwater clamshells
Poetry
My Grandparents in their Kitchen
She drank cup after cup of tea, stubbed butts of Pall Malls,
Poetry

About

Hope Jordan

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Hope Jordan grew up in Chittenango, NY, and holds a dual BA from Syracuse University and an MFA from UMass Boston (2020). Her work appears most recently in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blue Mountain Review, and Stone Canoe. She currently serves as a poetry editor for The Worcester Review.

She lives in NH, where she was the state’s first official poetry slam master. Her chapbook is The Day She Decided to Feed Crows (Cervena Barva Press, 2018).
An experienced fundraiser and former journalist, Hope Jordan has also taught college-level classes in poetry, public relations and journalism.