WATERS EDGE
Michael
Waters will join us from Salisbury, MD, and read with an old friend and
one of our area's finest poets, John Hoppenthaler of Haverstraw.
Hoppenthaler's first book of poetry, Lives of Water, was published in 2003 in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. Local listeners will enjoy the strong sense of place, and all will enjoy the basic human situations and questions he illuminates. Hoppenthaler is poetry editor of Kestrel and he is currently editing a collection of essays on Jean Valentine.
Waters'
latest poetry collection is his seventh: Parthenopi: New and Selected
Poems (BOA Editions). It is arranged not chronologically but by themes,
(two dominant ones being love and loss), and it was very positively reviewed
in Poetry, World Literature Today, The Gettysburg Review, and other
publications. He teaches at Salisbury University where he won a Distinguished
Faculty Award in 2001 and his many prizes, fellowships, and residencies,
include an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and several Yaddo Residency
Fellowships.
Introductions by Dan Masterson.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.