April
18, 2005
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John
Hoppenthaler To Give Poetry Reading At Ramapo College
(Mahwah) – A poetry reading by John Hoppenthaler will
be given Wednesday, May 4 from 2 – 3:30 p.m. in Room
SC-138 on the campus of Ramapo College of New Jersey. The
reading is open to the public. The event is co-sponsored
by the College’s Office of the President and the AIS
Colloquium Series.
Hoppenthaler
is author Toni Morrison’s assistant. His first
book of poetry, Lives of Water, was published by Carnegie
Mellon University Press in 2003. He is currently editing
a collection of essays and interviews on the work of Jean Valentine. He
received his MFA in poetry writing from Virginia Commonwealth
University. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming
in a number of literary magazines including Ploughshares,
The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kansas Quarterly,
New Letters, Chelsea, Tar River Poetry, Pleiades, the anthologies September
11, 2001: American Writers Respond, the Christian
Science Monitor electronic edition and LUNA.
His
reviews, interviews and essays regularly
appear in such journals as Chelsea, Arts & Letters, The Bellingham
Review, Pleiades, and Kestrel, where he is
poetry editor. Among his honors are an individual artist
grant from the West Virginia Commission on
the Arts, a fellowship from the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, a foreign travel
grant from West Virginia University and 19 Pushcart Prize nominations.
For
more information about the poetry reading,
call Susan Hangen, 201.684.7412.
