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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Appearances
So bitches.
Uh my favorite Linda, Linda Hall.
I you're right.
You know I was lying.
Yes.
But um this is a poet whose descriptive tendency is just one of the most unmatched in contemporary poetry.
I'd like to start
With um a poem I love called Night Waitress from her first book, Ghost Money, which is not a title I love, to be honest with you.
Night waitress.
Reflected in the plate glass, the pies look like clouds drifting off my shoulder.
I'm telling myself my face has character, not beauty.
It's my mother's Slavic face.
She washed the floor on hands and knees below the black Madonna, praying to her god of sorrows and visions, who's not here tonight when I lay out the plates, small planets, the cups of moons of saucers.
At this hour the men all look as if they had never had mothers.
They do not see me.
I bring the cups.
I bring the silver.
There's the man who leans over the jukebox nightly pressing the combinations of numbers.
I would not stop him if he touched me, but it's only songs of risky love he leans into.
The cook sings with the jukebox a moan and sizzle into the grill.
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