Judith Hall

Poetry Reading

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
4 p.m., Willard Smith Library
Vaughan Literature Building

Judith Hall is the author of four collections of poetry, To Put the Mouth To (1992), Anatomy, Errata (1998), The Promised Folly (2003), and Three Trios, her translation of the poet J II (2007). She also collaborated with David Lehman on Poetry Forum, a “pl’em”, or play poem, which she illustrated. For a time Hall directed the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project and senior program specialist for literary publishing at the NEA. Since 1995, she has served as poetry editor of Antioch Review. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. She teaches at the California Institute of Technology and in the MFA program at New England College.

Judith Hall

PRAYER

For when the hills polite in silence silence the night

Falling in with them

And the moon looks away

Lift the wine to them is it possible

How many others failed

Their fictions of confidence to no end

Is it possible to disappoint

Tomorrow now

Lift the wing look it makes of speech the wound intended