John Hoppenthaler previously published Lives of Water and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays on the poetry of Jean Valentine, Jean Valentine: This-World Company?. For the cultural journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, he edits “A Poetry Congeries.” He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University.

Other poems by John Hoppenthaler in Verse Daily:
February 17, 2008:   "College Town" "Dinner tonight is chili dogs with onion, pepperoni rolls..."
October 20, 2002:  "Farm Sitting" "Christy throws a rock— / the barn splinters..."

Books by John Hoppenthaler:

Other poems on the web by John Hoppenthaler:
Five poems
"Bamboo"
Two poems
"Mirage"
Three poems
"Siple Dome"
Two poems

About Domestic Garden:

"John Hoppenthaler is naive enough to believe that human truths exist and crazy enough to hunt them down, unleashing his poems with ‘bared teeth / polished and glistening,’ to track, capture, display and extol them."
—Campbell McGrath