Trish Hopkinson

Poetry Response Ability (a manifesto) | Trish Hopkinson

“Today I realize that my text is not going anywhere — except to meet itself.” Octavio Paz

Writing and reading poetry helps me interpret the static in my world — the noise, the many alternate voices; and to…

Denial | Trish Hopkinson

The surface of silent sorrow
where eyelids fold, half-rimmed
and wrapped sober over
Hiroshima and Dresden.
Colored by denial and closely
guarded, loss has haunted us.
Three generations unforgivable
and past knowing. An ancient
self-portrait from a different dimension
fell from the…