As part of the Jean Warren Gekler Writer's Series, Heidelberg welcomes poet and performance artist Joe Hall on February 22.
11:00 a.m.
Workshop, Pfleiderer Hall 101
3:00 p.m.
Reading, University Commons
Joe Hall is a writer, educator, and researcher in Buffalo and Ithaca, New York. Joe is the author of three solo collections of poetry: Someone’s Utopia, The Devotional Poems, and Pigafetta Is My Wife (Black Ocean 2018, 2013 & 2010). With Chad Hardy, he co-authored The Container Store Vols I & II (SpringGun 2012). With Cheryl Quimba, he co-authored May I Softly Walk (Poetry Crush 2014). With Ryan Kaveh Sheldon and Angela Veronica Wong, he participates in Hostile Books, a publishing collective dedicated to radical materiality. His work has been translated into Dutch and he has done readings at universities, squats and rivers in most of the 50 states as well as Canada and Washington, DC. His individual poems have appeared in Pen America, Gulf Coast, pretty cool poetry thing,The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Typo, Make, Peach Mag, and elsewhere. Hall has taught community based creative writing workshops through the Worker Center in Buffalo and Just Buffalo Literary Center. In 2018, Hall received a PhD in Literature from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal of Post Colonial Studies and Eighteenth-Century Fiction and he is on the research team of Buffalo's Justice For Migrant Families.