Motherhood & Words®

"It takes courage to write about motherhood in a culture that sets women with children on the sidelines, and it takes even greater courage to give voice to the powerful emotions and fears that swirl deep beneath the surface of our daily lives..." -Kathleen Hirsch and Katrina Kenison, Mothers

Monday, April 28, 2008

on narrative urgency and single parenting

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I’ ve been thinking a lot about narrative urgency the last couple of weeks because I recently went to see Charles Baxter talk about and rea...

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Friday, April 18, 2008

when the escape might not be worth it

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My darling Zoe is getting progressively fussier. It’s the must-be-bounced-and-carried-or-nursed-to-fall-and-stay-asleep kind of fussy. Yeste...

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Knopf poetry and Sharon Olds

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As you all know, it's National Poetry Month. And I hope you all know that Knopf will e-mail you one poem every day for the whole month! ...

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Monday, April 14, 2008

reading again

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D will be home tonight. He’s been gone for ten days with his new job. I doubt the timing, with Zoe just four weeks old when he left, could h...

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

what happens

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when your lovely change of scene gets buried under 19 inches of snow? You stare out the window for hours cursing at the snow that will not ...

Saturday, April 5, 2008

fresh air

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I'm up north with my mom and the girls, and the change of scene helps, though getting ready to leave the house yesterday felt like flyin...

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

a kinder, gentler version

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Zoe is 4 weeks old today, which seems impossible. How have four weeks already passed? How have four weeks of me doing nothing but nursing an...

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kate hopper: I'm a mama and writer and teacher. I've been helping mothers tell the stories they need to tell since 2006. I'm the author of Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers and Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood, winner of a 2014 MIPA Midwest Book Award, and co-author of Silent Running, a memoir of one family’s journey with autism and running. My writing has appeared in a number of journals, including Brevity, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times online and Poets & Writers. I have an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and I teach online, in Ashland University’s Low-residency MFA program, and at the Loft Literary Center. For more information about my work visit www.katehopper.com. Join the discussion!

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