John Hoppenthaler's poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's, Southern Review, Christian Science Monitor, Barrow Street, The Laurel Review, The Florida Review, 5 AM, 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, 2007, 2008, 2009), 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, The Cortland Review and Kestrel, where he served as Poetry Editor for eleven years. He currently serves as Advisory Editor to the cultural journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, where he also edits A Poetry Congeries and curates a Guest-Edited poetry feature. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Fairleigh Dickinson University's Words & Music Festival (WAMFEST).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. He is the author of two books of poetry, Lives of Water and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he is co-editing a volume of essays and interviews on the work of Jean Valentine.
Degrees
A.A. Rockland Community College
B.S. State University of New York at Brockport
M.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University
Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Creative Writing
Contemporary and Modern Poetry
American Literature
Courses Taught
6865: Practical Skills for Creative Writers: Writing Literary Reviews and Interviews
5840: Advanced Poetry Workshop
3840: Introduction to Poetry Writing
1100: Composition I
Selected Publications and Presentations
Lives of Water, Carnegie Mellon UP, 2003.
Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, Carnegie Mellon UP, 2008.
Website Links
Connotation Press
Author Bio
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