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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), 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, and Kestrel, where he is Poetry Editor. 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 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.
Degrees
A.A. Rockland Community College
B.S. State University of New York at Brockport
M.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University
Areas of Interest
Creative Writing
Contemporary and Modern Poetry
American Literature
Courses Taught
5840: Advanced Poetry Writing
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.
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