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H. Palmer Hall

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in Beaumont, Texas, The United States
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H. Palmer Hall was born in Beaumont, Texas, during World War II and spent most of his formative years in that city between the Big Thicket and the Gulf Coast. He was a Vietnamese interpreter/translator in the Army and spent the 1967-1968 war year in what was then South Vietnam. After returning from Vietnam, he worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) before being denied access to the Agency for marching in anti-war marches and signing a petition of 1,000+ active-duty soldiers opposed to the war. That petition appeared in The New York Times just before the great anti-war marches in Washington in the fall of 1969.
Hall is the editor/publisher of Pecan Grove Press, a small press operating out of St. Mary's University. His poems, short sto
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Foreign and Domestic

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Reflections on Writing, Pub...

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Into the Thicket

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To Wake Again

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Rites of Spring

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Coming To Terms

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From the Periphery: Poems a...

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POEtry and PrOsE

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Reflections from Pete's Pond

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Language for a Ne...
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H. Hall H. Hall said: " I have been dipping into a massive new book of poetry called Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond. It is a major piece of scholarship with poets representing close to 60 countries and more than 45 lang ...more "

 
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H. Hall H. Hall said: " Women of the Beat Generation is essential reading for anyone who is intrigued by Beat writing. Most of the material is a combination of biographical and creative work by the women who hung out with, made love to, served as muses for the male writers ...more "

 
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