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To my surprise and delight, I discovered two John S. Hall Vimeos that I recorded and edited a decade ago. They were lost, but now they are found, and for safe keeping, I am putting them here up on my blog.
I heard John Hall read his poem “Death” at the Sidewalk Cafe sometime in the autumn of 2014. I wish I would have begun to video John two poems earlier when he began his set, but anyway this is what I got, a poem I like a lot; there is tenderness, wisdom and grief under its F-word veneer.
And then at the Poetry Project’s 2015 New Year’s Day Marathon, I recorded John again reading two of his poems and one by Maggie Estep, accompanied by the wonderful songwriter, Ray Brown. Enjoy.
You can catch John S. Hall reading more poems here:
https://www.facebook.com/JSHJohnSHall