On Sunday, Poetry Daily re-published my poem “The Wound” from Fugue & Strike. Thank you, Poetry Daily. Here’s a statement I wrote on the poem: “The Wound” references the creative, successful organizing to remove racist developer Carl Paladino from the Buffalo Board of Education. This… Read More
weird timing. I should be (am) trying to get Fugue & Strike into your hands (o plz plz read it sir! sirrah!) but here they are 5 joy/grief-struck Buffalo poems from the next sprawling thing in the Summer 2023 issue of Action, Spectacle. whose movement… Read More
Hey, these new poems of mine are being projected through circuits of energy and light Afternoon Visitor 6 is out – w/thx to Maggie Nipps and TR Brady for their vision and work on the issue.
How to feel, in part, about what we wrote (& write) largely remote from social life during the pandemic? Fugue 87 is a poem in love w/Samuel Delany’s memoir, Motion of Light on Water. Don’t know if I’ve read anything else as attuned to the movement between day to day life (relationships, housing, money) and the lyric and erotic.
JOE HALL 