J HopkinsApr 6, 2022Persistence — April 6, 2022, by Jude HopkinsPersistence. Quite a word. The website etymonline.com tells us that the word originated in the 1540s from the French and Latin, meaning...
J HopkinsApr 1, 2022Reading My Poems for National Poetry Month, April 1, 2022, by Jude HopkinsThe wonderful editors at Gyroscope Review gave their published poets a chance to read three poems that had been published anywhere, not...
J HopkinsMar 31, 2022Is There a Leopard in Your Life? — March 31, 2022, by Jude HopkinsWhat happens if you don’t follow your dreams? Researchers from Cornell University and the New School for Social Research found that...
J HopkinsMar 29, 2022Don’t Abandon Your Dream, Part III – March 24, 2022, by Jude HopkinsMonths passed. I published a personal essay in The Los Angeles Times, as well as poems in various journals and was a runner-up in a...
J HopkinsMar 29, 2022Don’t Abandon Your Dream, Part II– March 23, 2022, by Jude HopkinsIn another year or so, I exhumed my book proposal and thought it good enough to send to another New York agent. It worked — again....
J HopkinsMar 22, 2022Don’t Abandon Your Dream, Part I – March 22, 2022, by Jude HopkinsOne day, long ago, I sat on the floor in my apartment in Tempe, Arizona, surrounded by notes, outlines, and a copy of a well-known novel...