James Allen Hall

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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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 11 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 4.

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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · Breaking Form Selects: Lucie Brock-Broido (A Summer Poetry Salon) · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

There is to be no turning back, and I will sing and think of crying for the first time, so they'll know at last I've blundered. voice-verified

I lean into the rock, a willful child, a little bruised, and voice-verified

And if I go out I will die dreaming. voice-verified

For voice-verified

I had forgotten the small news of the night between dreams and waking into the warm, smooth, blown air shimmying down the oval of the well. voice-verified

In the whole history of song I know very few. voice-verified

So this is what it's like. voice-verified

I am fixing on the hemp clothesline strung across Aunt Jamie Moore's backyard on last week's laundered sheets, triangled like sails, splashed with hyacinth and vetch, lay stiffened in the wind against a Texan cobalt sky. voice-verified

It is dawn. voice-verified

All night long my eyes widen to accommodate the lack of light, a self illumined glowfish flat on its side, I keep my flicker constant, wide awake while sleeping, both eyes ajar. voice-verified

Big, gangly, weeping, gamy men, sweethearts and insomniacs keep prodding me to sing. voice-verified

And I sing. voice-verified

And move your foot for me, Juicy, and I wiggle it back for the man. voice-verified

And how does a kitten go? voice-verified

And I go like a kitten goes, on and on, in that throaty, liquid, lewd, bow legged voice like kittens make, then shut these big ol' eyes. voice-verified

Five. voice-verified

Some day I will be buried above ground, like Monroe, vaulted always in the midst of flowers and sentiment. voice-verified

On the descent I was magically compact, boneless, as agile as water, itself always on the way toward other water. voice-verified

The noise of my own form against the loosening walls as I am born into the dark Rococo teratogenic rooms of the underground. voice-verified

All the noise of the world stops here and muffles muffles me. voice-verified

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