“I Will Always Love You" - Maybe Not, April 10, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
If you’ve ever sent out query letters to agents, you know the pain you feel when you get rejection letters back. It’s similar to the pain...
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J Hopkins
- Apr 6, 2022
Persistence — April 6, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
Persistence. Quite a word. The website etymonline.com tells us that the word originated in the 1540s from the French and Latin, meaning...
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J Hopkins
- Apr 1, 2022
Reading My Poems for National Poetry Month, April 1, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
The wonderful editors at Gyroscope Review gave their published poets a chance to read three poems that had been published anywhere, not...
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J Hopkins
- Mar 31, 2022
Is There a Leopard in Your Life? — March 31, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
What happens if you don’t follow your dreams? Researchers from Cornell University and the New School for Social Research found that...
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J Hopkins
- Mar 29, 2022
Don’t Abandon Your Dream, Part III – March 24, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
Months 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...
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J Hopkins
- Mar 29, 2022
Don’t Abandon Your Dream, Part II– March 23, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
In another year or so, I exhumed my book proposal and thought it good enough to send to another New York agent. It worked — again....
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J Hopkins
- Mar 22, 2022
Don’t Abandon Your Dream, Part I – March 22, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
One 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...
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Jude Hopkins
- Mar 16, 2022
Proximity Magazine's Personal Essay Contest judged by Hanif Abdurraqib. I was 3rd runner-up
The Diagnosis, by Jude Hopkins I woke up feeling Sister’s cool fingers pushing my sticky hair off my forehead. The orange walls, the...
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Jude Hopkins
- Mar 16, 2022
Metamorphosis
Issue 21-4 Fall 2021 Crone Power Issue I remember it was dark when we arrived at the Tucson motel, its neon sign blinking “Pool,” the...
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Jude Hopkins
- Sep 1, 2020
Personal essay: "School's Over; Lesson Learned" published in The Los Angeles Times July 2013
I was driving south on the 405 Freeway to meet my former high school boyfriend at a hotel. I had met up with him a few months earlier at...
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Jude Hopkins
- Jul 14, 2020
Between Two Worlds: When Desire Lingers After a Breakup
Published in P.S. I Love You, Medium, July 14, 2020 He was married. But I was still in limbo. It was 10 p.m. when I finished teaching my...
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Jude Hopkins
- Jun 17, 2019
Where Are The Men Who Love Logophiles? Published in the belladonna June 17, 2019
Confound It! I once read that Woody Allen learned vocabulary words by keeping lists in his underwear drawer. I’m not quite as obsessive....
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Jude Hopkins
- Apr 1, 2016
Poem: "How We Once Moved" — Published in California Quarterly Vol 35. No. 3
Over a cup of instant tea, you told me you were married, somewhat content, a father and a teacher. I suppose such a rendering — given...
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Jude Hopkins
- Mar 31, 2016
Poem: "The Over-Ripe Imagination in Buckle-Up Country" — Published in Timber Creek Review, Vol. 15.
The sun, like the hills, tempers the natives, appearing only after cresting the Alleghenies and departs long before turning in for the...
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Jude Hopkins
- Sep 27, 2015
Poems published in Grey Sparrow Journal Issue 22 — Three Poems
Vis Vitae When I ask, the seller admits a man died in the house, but nearly a century ago, of glanders, a disease he says no one even...
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Jude Hopkins
- Jan 1, 2015
California Quarterly: One Poem
Volume 43, Number 4 How Women View Windows Most houses have a window over the kitchen sink and next to the passenger side of the bed: a...
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Jude Hopkins
- Dec 1, 2014
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