There are a lot of poets I love and have met along the way in this THICK issue of Oversound. It features a long poem of mine, “Ekpyrosis, The Watershed” (pictures are excerpts, a few of the 9 pages). It’s about the grind, the purgatory… Read More
I couldn’t ask for a better remediation of my reading of “Fugue 184 | Ekpyrosis” at Silo City (below). Flatsitter orchestrated the video. Using music by Lizzi Bougatsos (I think). Noah Falck planned the event and, along with so many other people, did the work of making it happen. Also, Robin Jordan’s enthusiastic collage response helped give me the guts to end my set with this poem that sprawls.
What could I want more than to talk about my library, the books and encounters with language that changed my life? –& some icons: John Weiners, Myung Mi Kim, Karen Brodine, Samuel Delany, Janice Lobo Sapigao. Grateful to @k_e_naughton at Etcetera for the invitation and… Read More
JOE HALL 