John Hoppenthaler: Bucknell: 2/26/08

Tuesday, February 26, 4 PM: John Hoppenthaler will give a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library of the Vaughan Literature Building on the campus of Bucknell University.

John Hoppenthaler is the author of two books of poetry, Lives of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, Southern Review, and other magazines, and in several anthologies. A reviewer, essayist, and interviewer, he is editor of the literary journal Kestrel. Hoppenthaler served for several years as personal assistant to the novelist Toni Morrison. A regular faculty member at the West Virginia Writers Workshop and Writers at the Beach, he is assistant professor of English at East Carolina University.

The new Writers Up Close series brings to campus poets who also work in arts administration. Each poet speaks on his or her area of editorial/administrative expertise as a guest in Shara McCallum's course on arts administration, then presents a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library.

This event is free and open to the public.

John Hoppenthaler: Bloomsburg: 10/5/06

Bloomsburg University's Big Dog Reading Series will lead off this fall with poet John Hoppenthaler on Thursday, October 5, at 7 PM in the Kehr Union Multicultural Center.

John Hoppenthaler's poetry has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New Letters, The Bloomsbury Review, Tar River Poetry, Chelsea, Poet Lore, Connecticut Review, and September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond. His first poetry collection, Lives of Water, is available from Carnegie Mellon University Press. The poetry editor of Kestrel, he is currently editing a collection of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine. This reading is free and open to the public.