Discipline: Literature – poetry

John Hoppenthaler

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Washington, NC
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
More: www.pw.org/directory/writers/john_hoppenthaler
John Hoppenthaler is the author of three books of poetry, Lives of Water, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, and Domestic Garden, all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited Jean Valentine: This World Company (Michigan UP, 2012). His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's, Southern Review, Christian Science Monitor, Barrow Street, The Laurel Review, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Subtropics, The Literary Review, Southeast Review, 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, 2006-2012), A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (U of Akron P, 2012), Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina (U of Carolina P, 2013), Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry From West Virginia (WVUP, 2017) 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, North Carolina Literary Review, Cortland Review, and Kestrel, where he served as poetry editor for 11 years. He currently edits A Poetry Congeries at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. For nine years he served as personal assistant to Toni Morrison.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

John Hoppenthaler worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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