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Hall, Joseph

  • Joseph Hall

  • ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
    English
    ACADEMIC SCHOOL
    School of Arts and Sciences

    TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
    Assistant Professor, English
    Director of the Literary Publishing and Editing Program
    Faculty adviser for The Laurel
    CONTACT
    Office phone: (716) 375-7880
    Send an email
    OFFICE
    Plassmann Hall 320
    COURSES TAUGHT
    • ENG 102. Writing II
    • ENG 270. Creating Writing: Fiction
    • ENG 271. Creative Writing: Poetry
    • ENG 328. Small Press Publishing & Editing
    • ENG 350. Creative Writing: Fiction II
    • ENG 351. Creative Writing: Poetry II
    ACADEMIC DEGREES
    • Ph.D., University at Buffalo SUNY, 2018
    • M.F.A., George Mason University, 2008
    • B.A., St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2004
    OTHER EDUCATION
    PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
    • Research & Instruction Librarian, Daemen University, 2019 – 2022
    • Creative Writing Instructor, SUNY Fredonia, 2019 – 2021
    • Teaching Artist, Just Buffalo Literary Center, 2013 – Present
    ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    Books

    • Buffalo Free Rapid Transit. Black Ocean Press, Forthcoming in 2026.
    • People Finder, Buffalo. Cloak, 2025.
    • Fugue & Strike. Black Ocean Press, 2023.
    • Someone’s Utopia. Black Ocean Press, 2018.
    • The Devotional Poems. Black Ocean Press, 2013. 
    • The Container Store Vols. I & II by Joe Hall and Chad Hardy. SpringGun Press, 2012. 
    • Pigafetta Is My Wife.  Black Ocean Press, 2010.

    Essays

    • Poetics of the Handmade, "Asbestos, Duct Tape, Willow Bark: 8 Notes on Heading Towards Hostile Books" (2025)
    • asides // besides, "A Sousveillance Poetics for 2025" (2025)
    • Community Mausoleum, "PEN America: Cultural Imperialism's Avant-Garde" (2024)
    • Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, "Wendell Berry Peace Disintegrator Pistol" (2022)
    • Fence Digital, "“Hysterically Real's De-automata, or Picture Books,” “And the Next Thing You Know" (on Amira Hanafi),” “The Mule is Burning: Dwarf Fortress' Poetics of Endless Context" (2020)

    Poems in Journals (Selected)

    • Amenia Free Review, “Fireballs 2,” “Directions to the Meeting Hall on Connecticut,” “In the House of Cancer,” “Double Deep Funded" (Forthcoming)
    • Antiphony, “Footpath" (Forthcoming)
    • Bennington Review, “Fugue 9 | The Great Beyond, Again” (Forthcoming)
    • The Dialogist, "Directions to E’s Apartment on Fillmore,” “Directions to the Rite-Aid on Grant,” “Directions to the Bus Shelter on Main" (2024)
    • Cleveland Review of Books, “Breath Gradients, Block by Block,” "Fireballs 5: OSHA Tours the Application Factory" (2024)
    • Protean Magazine, “Overproduction/Reintegration” (2024)
    • Oversound, "Ekpyrosis, The Watershed" (2023)
    • Ocean State Review, “Fugue 156 | Business Backs Goal to Plant a Billion Trees," "Sonnet on Fourteen One Dollar Bills...#11," and "Hello, Dave” (2023)
    • Afternoon Visitor, “Fugue 87 | Where We Walk w/Grief,” “Fugue 113 | The Municipality of Daydreams” (2022)
    • Snail Trail: An Ecopoetics Journal, “[trashcan emoji, fire emoji],” “On Other Water,” “Laban Meatpacking” (2021)
    • Poetry Northwest, “I Hate That You Died” (2019)
    • PEN America Blog, “from People Finder Buffalo” (2019)
    • saltfront: studies in human habit(at), “On River Road,” “Buffalo’s Intestines” (2019)
    • Poetry Daily, “Amnesia 2007 / Nightshift, Mandatory Overtime II” (2018)
    • Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, “Utopia: Love As Last Day” (2016)
    • Yalobusha Review, “Amnesia ’97,” “Amensia ‘13” (2014)
    • PEN America Blog, “Dawn, Third Shift” (2013)
    • Sink Review, “I Was Living in a Boarded Up House Without Heat,” “Exorcism ‘Even Iron Heals’” (2013)
    • Puerto Del Sol, “Brothers” (2013)
    • Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, “Utopia: Love As Free as a Fountain” (2013)

    Scholarly Publications

    • “Sea-Floor Property and Imperial Futures in Thomas Heyrick’s ‘The Submarine Voyage.’” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31.4 (2019): 639-657. 
    • “Shared Sorrow, Shared Abundance: Water-Waste Flows in Palestinian Literature.” 
      The Journal of Postcolonial Studies 22.1 (2015): 1-22.
    TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
    CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
    PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
    LINKS
    Someone’s Utopia, by Joe Hall
    Fugue & Strike, by Joe Hall