May Forum with John Hoppenthaler (In-Person and on Zoom!)
Dih, 10 Cèit
|Charleston Library Society
The Forum is the last meeting of the calendar year, and as such includes a little business. The board for the upcoming 2024-2025 calendar year is elected. Our special guest poet is John Hoppenthaler, who will read for us and serve as forum moderator. See About the Event for more information and Zoom
Time & Location
10 Cèit 2024, 19:00 – 20:30
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Guests
About the event
Zoom link for Friday's reading: Click Here!
Zoom link for Saturday's workshop: Click Here! (See the separate workshop event provided for more details. The link is provided again there).
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.
Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1960, he lived in Queens, NY until 1965, when his family moved to New City, NY. He received an AA in Poetry Writing from Rockland Community College and a BS in English from the State University of New York at Brockport. Hoppenthaler received his MFA in Poetry Writing from Virginia…