John Hoppenthaler's books of poetry are Night Wing Over Metropolitan Area, Domestic Garden, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, and Lives of Water, all with Carnegie Mellon UP. With Kazim, Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays on the poetry of Jean Valentine, This-World Company (U of Michigan P). His poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, New York Magazine, Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, The Literary Review, Blackbird, Southern Humanities Review, and many other journals, anthologies, and textbooks. He is a Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University.
Poems in this episode:
Poem 1: "Passing" by John Hoppenthaler
This poem was first published in Blackbird.
Poem 2: “Farm Sitting” by John Hoppenthaler
This poem is from his book Lives of Water.
Poem 3: "Bourbon, Cigarettes, Van Morrison" by John Hoppenthaler
This poem was first published in Birmingham Poetry Review.
Poem 4: "The Nature of Nature"
This poem was first published in The Greensboro Review.
Poem 5: "Why Bother" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
This poem appears on Words for the Year.
Poem 6: "Across a Great Wilderness without You" by Keetje Kuiper
This poem appears on poets.org
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