VOICES Reading: Joe Hall (September 17, 7:30 PM, DPC)

Thursday, September 17: Poet and SMCM Alumn  Joe Hall, 7:30 PM, Daugherty Palmer Commons; introduced by Professor Jeff Coleman

Joe Hall is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Buffalo Free Rapid Transit (2026) and Fugue and Strike (2023). With Chad Hardy, he co-authored The Container Store Vols I & II (2012). With Cheryl Quimba, he co-authored the chapbook May I Softly Walk (2014). Hall has performed and delivered talks nationally at universities, living rooms, squats, and/or rivers in most of the 50 states as well as Canada and Washington, DC. He participates in Hostile Books, a publishing collective dedicated to radical materiality, with Ryan Kaveh Sheldon and Angela Veronica Wong, Hall is currently an Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University. He has taught community based creative writing workshops through the Worker Center in Buffalo and Just Buffalo Literary Center.