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.

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Waiting for Stevie Nicks
Maybe she was back in the ’70s, but Stevie Nicks is definitely not cool now, not in 1985. The blond mullet, the lame videos, the sugary pop. Only white trash girls are into her, little toy doves in their bedrooms. Dressing up in platform boots and long skirts. You wouldn’t catch me dead. I rip my t-shirts and pin the holes together.
Orcalit.com
fiction gen x punk stevie nicks roadies
Featured
The Ghost of Black Creek Road (and other poems)
The Ghost of Black Creek Road It’s 1973 and the house is new Our father holds us spellbound in the living room inventing the Ghost of Black Creek Road … and there she is! Our mother makes her way from the hall, hair dark and slick with dye, surpris
cutleafjournal.com
poetry
Oneida Lake, 1977
Somewhere Tom Petty’s American Girl still plays on endless loop and me and Kim walk in adolescent lockstep, tug our terrycloth shorts to cover our butts. Love’s Baby Soft and Coppertone coconut, lemon scent of Sun-In on our hair. We still count the cars w
Medium
poetry
Hope Jordan
Celebrating Wendy O. Williams, Song for my Grandchildren, and more
Hole In The Head
poetry
Book Review: Solastalgia, by Brittney Corrigan
These consolations – images of nature moving on without us, images of the decaying built world and the theoretical comfort of geologic time — help leaven what could be, but isn’t a grim elegy of a book.
theworcesterreview.org
nonfiction
An Interview with TWR Volume 42 Contributor Brittney Corrigan
Hope Jordan: The topic of Solastalgia – climate change anxiety – is pretty difficult. What was it like for you to spend so much time with it? Brittney Corrigan: For me, writing is my way of dealing with difficult subject matter. A natural way to deal with
theworcesterreview.org
nonfiction
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
The Blue Mountain Review Issue 15
The night of the torrential rain, you wore a bicycle helmet in case the mother raccoon decided to attack you.
Issuu
fiction
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
Raquel Salas Rivera Talks: "I don't occupy..." | Breakwater Review
Nonfiction
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
About "Ode to a Luna"
In June of 2017, I was in a poetry workshop with Peter Balakian at the Colgate Writers Conference. Colgate, for those who have never been there, is consistently ranked as one of the most beautiful campuses in America. The weather was brilliant, so Peter decided to have individual conferences outside.
Publicity about me
All This is Temporary
Features work by: William Ade, Jesse Albatrosov, Tobi Alfier, Marcella Benton, Michelle Brooks, William Cass, A.K. Cover Artist: Angelique Bochnak. Purchase the Print Copy here. Support independent Bookstores! Purchase a copy of Black Fox from:
Fiction
The Challenger Disaster by Hope Jordan
I kissed you at a St. Valentine’s Day Massacre party. Years later I watched a documentary about the actual massacre and it seemed like a gruesome inspiration for a party theme. Back in 1929 Al Capone’s gangsters murdered seven others in Chicago; historians said that never before had Americans seen photos with so much blood, in the newspaper.
Fiction
Depth Finders Up the Ying Yang
A poem about my mother, a wolf, & more
poetry

About

Hope Jordan

Fiction

Poetry

Nonfiction

Teaching

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.