Trish Hopkinson has always loved words — in fact, her mother tells everyone she was born with a pen in her hand. A Pushcart nominated poet, she has been published in several anthologies and journals, including Tinderbox, Pretty Owl Poetry, and The Penn Review; and her third chapbook Footnote was published by Lithic Press in 2017. Hopkinson is co-founder of a regional poetry group, Rock Canyon Poets, and Editor-in-Chief of the group’s annual poetry anthology entitled Orogeny. She is a product director by profession and resides in Utah with her handsome husband and their two outstanding children.


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Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 15, 2019

Trish Hopkinson

Other Ways

There are so many good ways to go — while aged and sleeping, loved ones tending to those last moments, a legacy prepared well in advance, a vase selected for ashes or a quote for a headstone. There are other ways, maybe less planned but perhaps just as good — the final fall of a skydiver after 2,500 successful jumps might be the perfect way, or after years of chemo and radiation, making it to your youngest son’s graduation before letting your body rest. There are other ways that are ruthless — dancing in a nightclub or at a concert, at worship in a church or synagogue, in a classroom, at work, or even at Walmart where you happen to be shopping with your new husband and two-month-old shielding each other from semi-automatic fire until only your child survives. Lately, it seems the good ways go unnoticed while we just try to keep count.



Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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