The NEOMFA Reading Series Welcomes James Allen Hall

2258 Euclid Avenue,Cleveland OH 44115

05 May, 2023

Description

James Allen Hall is the author of I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well, which won the 2016 Essay Collection Competition, se­lected by Chris Kraus and published in 2017 by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Recent essays have appeared recently in Fourth Genre, Copper Nickel, and Bennington Review. Hall is also the author of two collections of poetry: Romantic Comedy (Four Way Books, 2023), winner of the Levis Reading Prize, selected by Diane Seuss, and Now You're the Enemy (U of Arkansas, 2008), which won awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He directs the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College. This event will take place at Cleveland State University's Parker Hannifin Hall. Doors open at 7, reading at 7:30. To find out more about the NEOMFA and our upcoming readings, visit neomfa.org