John Hoppenthaler's books of poetry are Domestic Garden (2015), Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), and Lives of Water (2003), all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine, This-World Company—Jean Valentine (U Michigan P, 2012).  His poetry appears in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, West Branch, Laurel Review, Christian Science Monitor, Blackbird, Southern Humanities Review, and Southern Review, as well as in many other journals and anthologies. For the cultural journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact he edits "A Poetry Congeries." He is a Professor of Creative Writing at East Carolina University.