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Joe Hall is the author of five books of poetry, including Someone's Utopia (2018) and Fugue & Strike (forthcoming). His poems, reviews, and scholarship have appeared in Poetry Daily, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Postcolonial Studies, Peach Mag, terrain.org, PEN America Blog, Poetry Northwest, Ethel Zine, Gulf Coast, Best Buds! Collective, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. He has taught poetry workshops for teachers, teens, and workers through Just Buffalo and the WNYCOSH Worker Center.

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Poetic Autoethnography

Life changes, $, age, energy, sanity, some loose connections all kept me from touring heavily for my last book, Someone's Utopia. So I've been spreading the word slowly, and I figure that after a year + 3 months I should probably post about it here.

Someone's Utopia

This book is about a lot of things--work, waste/excess/ecologies, despair, gender, family. I've never been able to sum it up neatly bu Read more of this blog post »
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