James Allen Hall
speaker
2,199 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Aug
James Allen Hall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
Well, that was our Melvin Dixon salon.
I hope that you enjoyed it.
Uh absolutely.
And also like the the things that you say in your world to your friends, the slang with which you speak, like let that in your poems.
He's really good at at all of that.
It's poetry.
It's poetry.
We serve hot takes on poetry and po-biz.
Hello, Aaron.
Welcome to Breaking Form Selects, a summer salon series where we pick one poet and read four poems by that poet, a poet we love and we want to celebrate and dive deeper into.
And there'll be no fact check and the bio will be in the show notes.
That would be a very Levis kind of thing.
yeah i almost cried and beautiful and awful and stunning and unbelievably written and complex i mean you could study that poem for hours and pick it apart i i mean i love the sort of fabulism that it starts with and then unravels you know it's like how how how can i tell you this story let me make you think it's a myth
Yeah, that's what I thought.
So reading the recently released Swirl in Vortex, the collected poems of Larry Levis, I was really shocked by the early poems that I had just never seen.
There are so many little shorties in there.
And to see how he...
sort of graduated to that, I mean, he just opened up his asshole, girl.
That aperture just widened.
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