Hoppenthaler Serves as Poet-in-Residence

John Hoppenthaler served as a poet-in-residence for The Chautauqua Institution last week, offering a reading (with New York Times best-selling memoirist, Julie Metz), a lecture (“Indigenous Poets at the Center of the Page: An Introduction to the Poems of Joy Harjo and Natalie Diaz”), and a week-long workshop (Mail’s In–The Epistolary Poem). The famous Chautauqua Institution spurred the late 19th century Chautauqua movement, and it has hosted speakers that include Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, and Salman Rushdie, who was infamously attacked and stabbed several times by an Islamic extremist there during a lecture last year. It has hosted performers that include John Philip Sousa, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Lucille Ball, Rhiannon Giddens, Emmylou Harris, and Diana Ross.

Also, his forthcoming fourth collection of poetry, Night Wing over Metropolitan Area, was named a top 50 fall poetry selection by Publisher’s Weekly.