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Published Author, RCC Alumnus John Hoppenthaler to Read
Published Author, RCC Alumnus John Hoppenthaler to Read new book "Domestic Garden"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: April 15, 2015
CONTACT: Maralin Roffino
845 -574-4244
mroffino@sunyrockland.edu
Published Author, RCC Alumnus John Hoppenthaler to Read
free and open to the public
Ramapo- All are welcome to Rockland Community College for a poetry reading by alumnus and published author John Hoppenthaler ‘85, who will read from his new book, Domestic Garden.
Poetry Reading
Monday, April 20
3 to 4 pm
Technology Center, 8349 (Reading and Writing Center)
Refreshments
John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Lives of Water (2003), Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), and Domestic Garden (2015), all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. He also co-edited (with Kazim Ali) a volume of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine, This-World Company—Jean Valentine (U Michigan P, 2012).
His poetry appears, or is forthcoming in, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Review, Barrow Street, Laurel Review, West Branch, The Literary Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Copper Nickel, Subtropics, Southern Humanities Review, Pleiades, Waccamaw, Blackbird, the anthologies A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (U of Akron P, 2012), The Incredible Sestina Anthology(Write Bloody Publishing, 2013), Blooming through the Ashes: An International Anthology on Violence and the Human Spirit (Rutgers UP, 2008), Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina (U of North Carolina P, 2013), Poetry Calendar (Alhambra Publishing, 2006-2011), Southern Poetry Anthology VII: North Carolina (Texas Review Press, 2015), and elsewhere.
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Hoppenthaler earned an MFA in Poetry Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University, and for 12 years served as Poetry Editor for Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Arts; for the cultural journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, and also served 9 years as a personal assistant to Toni Morrison. Currently he edits A Poetry Congeries and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University.
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