From the Pamlico Writers Group

Washington resident and East Carolina University Associate Professor of English/creative writing poet John Hoppenthaler will read from his books and answer questions as featured speaker at the Pamlico Writers Group Sept. 15 fall luncheon meeting to be held at the Washington Golden Corral, 1424 Carolina Avenue, in Washington. All luncheon meetings are free to the public.

Attendees will go through the normal buffet line at 11:15 a.m. and assemble in the private meeting room. They are encouraged to leave a tip for their server so that Pamlico Writers Group can reduce facility costs.

Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are “Lives of Water” (2003), “Anticipate the Coming Reservoir” (2008) and “Domestic Garden” (2015), all published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
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,” “The Incredible Sestina Anthology,” “Blooming through the Ashes: An International Anthology on Violence and the Human Spirit,” “Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina,” Poetry Calendar, “Southern Poetry Anthology VII: North Carolina,” and elsewhere.
Hoppenthaler has given dozens of readings recently, including at Carnegie Mellon University, the Sanibel Island Writer’s Conference, University of Minnesota, Towson University, Xavier University of New Orleans, the Asheville Wordfest, Quail Ridge Books, Scuppernong Books, The Regulator Bookshop, University of Tampa, University of South Florida, Manhattanville College,Valencia College, University of Texas-El Paso, the Chautauqua Institution, Florida State University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, California University of Pennsylvania, Penn State-Altoona, University of South Carolina, Marist College, Rockland Community College (NY), University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Penn State-Brandywine, Anne Arundel CC (MD), Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, NC, the Mixer Reading Series at Cakeshop in NYC, and Seattle (AWP Conference).
He is scheduled to read at the Ashland University, the West Virginia University Writers’ Conference, Auburn University, Wells College, St, Mary’s College of Maryland, Young Harris College, Reinhardt College, and elsewhere in the coming months.
He received his master’s of fine arts in poetry writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. For 12 years, he served as poetry editor for Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Arts; for the cultural journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, and he currently edits “A Poetry Congeries.” For nine years he served as personal assistant to author Toni Morrison.

The Sept. 15 luncheon is open to the public. Pamlico Writers Group is affiliated with Arts of the Pamlico and meets as small critique groups on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 7 p.m. at the Turnage Theatre. Novice and published authors are invited to join the groups.

 

Pamlico Writers Group and Arts of the Pamlico co-sponsor the Pamlico Writers Conference, held annually in March. Look for this and other events at www.pamlicowritersgroup.org.