The Tinker & More by Julie Hopp

Introduction

Julie Hopp, a lesbian poet, lived in the Rainbow's End community in Oregon from 1985 until her tragic death in 1998 at the age of 36.

Her poetry and writings are included in the SO CLAP! (Southern Oregon Country Lesbian Archival Project) Collection, 1974-1999. This version of the The Tinker & More was provided to LPA by Hopp's friend Michael Glass who served with Julie in the Peace Corps in Kenya from late 1982 through 1984.

Additional material about Julie Hopp is available in Maize magazine, Number 58 (Summer 98), pages 4-8. Regarding the essay “The Night Our Julie Died” (p. 6), Bethroot Gwynn penned a companion poem entitled “She Took Chris, Then Julie”, which appears in her 2017 collection Preacher Woman for the Goddess; someone happens to have uploaded a pertinent excerpt from that book here:
https://fliphtml5.com/xbdpm/gslj/PreacherWoman-for-the-Goddess/
(See pages 16-17 of that digital flipbook, corresponding to pages 62-63 of the original.) “Chris” is clearly Chris Pierce, remembered by Hawk Madrone in Maize Number 57, pp. 5-7.

Poems from Julie's collection have been cited in two academic papers that can readily be found online: "Lesbian Separatist Communities and the Experience of Nature: Toward a Queer Ecology” by Catriona Sandilands (2002), and “Old Growth Feminism: Arboreal Agencies on Lesbian Land" by Elana Margot Santana (2013).