Poet John Hoppenthaler will be on the West Virginia University campus for a public reading Tuesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Gold Ballroom.

Hoppenthaler is the author of”Lives of Water.”His poetry has also appeared or is forthcoming in such literary journals as Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Kansas Quarterly, New Letters, Chelsea, Tar River Poetry, Pleaides, Connecticut Review, Poet Lore, The Bloomsbury Review, Margie, Two Rivers Review, Yale Anglers’Journal and the anthology”September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond.”

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.

Hoppenthaler earned his master’s degree of fine arts in poetry writing from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1988. 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 WVU and six Pushcart Prize nominations.

He is currently editing a collection of essays and interviews on the work of Jean Valentine, for which he has signed an advance contract with Wesleyan University Press.

The reading is free, and a reception and book signing will follow. For more information, contact the Department of English at 293-3107, ext. 404.