John Hoppenthaler

John Hoppenthaler is the author of three books of poetry, Lives of Water, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, and Domestic Garden, all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited Jean Valentine: This World Company (Michigan UP, 2012). His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's, Southern Review, Christian Science Monitor, Barrow Street, The Laurel Review, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Subtropics, The Literary Review, Southeast Review, the anthologies September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (Etruscan Press, 2002), Blooming through the Ashes: An International Anthology on Violence and the Human Spirit (Rutgers UP, 2008), Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005), Poetry Calendar (Alhambra Publishing, 2006-2012), A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (U of Akron P, 2012), Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina (U of Carolina P, 2013), Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry From West Virginia (WVUP, 2017) and in many other publications. His essays, interviews, and essay/reviews appear in such journals as Arts & Letters, Southeast Review, Chelsea, Bellingham Review, Pleiades, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, North Carolina Literary Review, Cortland Review, and Kestrel, where he served as Poetry Editor for eleven years. He currently edits A Poetry Congeries at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. For nine years he served as Personal Assistant to Toni Morrison. He has read his poetry at Bucknell, Virginia Commonwealth, Hollins, West Virginia University, University of Stirling, The Dodge Poetry Festival, Emory, the Chautauqua Institution, Widener, University of Louisville, Florida State University, the University of South Carolina, the KGB Bar, the University of Texas-El Paso, Towson University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Sanibel Island Writer's Conference, the University of Minnesota, Manhattan College, Auburn University, Cal State Northridge University, Mary Washington University, and elsewhere.