John Hoppenthaler
John Hoppenthaler teaches at East Carolina University and is the author of two books of poetry, and a forthcoming volume of poems from Carnegie Mellon. He is co-editing a volume of essays and interviews on the work of Jean Valentine and has read his poetry at numerous universities and conferences. 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, and Kestrel, where he has served as Poetry Editor for eleven years. He also writes a by-solicitation-only poetry feature for Connotation Press. Among his honors are an Individual Artist Grant from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, grants from the New York Foundation on the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, and Residency Fellowships from The Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
For more information,
- See his faculty page at East Carolina University
- Read selected poems at The Innisfree Poetry Journal
- Read selected works at VerseDaily
- Read his poem "Tree House" at Alehouse
- Read his poem "Beneath the Peach Tree" at Bucknell University
- Read his poem "Siple Dome" at Climate Controlled
- Read his poem "Tommy's Earthbound Son Gets to Jump Center on Senior Night" at Potomac
- Read his poem "Mirage" at Blackbird
- Listen to an audio of him with host Frank Stasio as he reads from his work and discusses the joys of verse for National Poetry Month at North Carolina Public Radio
- Read his Wikipedia page
- View videos of Hoppenthaler reading at the 2010 NC Poetry Society Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series (see below)
For more videos in this series, visit YouTube.
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