Posted on May 29, 2023
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by John Hoppenthaler on Thursday, November 9th at 7:00 PM at at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm Street. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and a concert by Greensboro’s “Anti-meta, Neo-beat, Electronic Garage Gospel Quartet” The Difficulties.
JOHN HOPPENTHALER’s books of poetry are Domestic Garden (2015), Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), and Lives of Water (2003), all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poetry has appeared in many journals, anthologies, and textbooks, including The Greensboro Review, storySouth, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Southern Review, Christian Science Monitor, Poetry Northwest, Southeast Review, The Laurel Review, The Florida Review, West Branch, The Literary Review, Blackbird, New York Magazine, Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets (State U of New York P, 2010), 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, 2006-2012), Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina (U of North Carolina P, 2013), 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), The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII: North Carolina (Texas Review Press, 2014), Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia (West Virginia UP, 2017), A Compendium of Kisses (Terrapin Books, 2019), You Are The River ( North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), and Crossing the Rift: North Carolina Poets on 9/11 & Its Aftermath (Press 53, 2021).
