On May 11, Stone Soup Poetry and The University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Program team up to retun to the Dudley Cafe in Roxbury for another night of poetry and prose iwth open mic included. Readers include Richard Hoffman, Vanesa Pacheco and main feature Tim Hall.
Tim Hall is an
educator, artist, and entrepreneur, from Detroit, MI, who now resides in
Boston, MA. He began playing alto saxophone at the age of 10. In college, Hall
found poetry and used this form of creative expression to share his thoughts on
paper. Tim Hall draws inspiration from his lived experiences - charting the
nuances of blackness, masculinity, and the beauties of life. As a musician,
Hall has shared stages with world-renowned recording artists such as The Nappy
Roots, Carolyn Malachi, Bilal, Chris Turner, and Aloe Blacc. His poetry has
been heard at Boston's Hub Week, The Museum of Fine Arts, Berklee College of
Music, Outside the Box Festival, Bridgin' Gaps Festival, and many other venues
and poetry slam communities around the Boston/Greater Boston area.
Hall currently works as a at Berklee College of Music as the
Assistant Director of the Career Center, is the co-owner of HipStory - a
digital media production company dedicated to creating and showcasing the work
of marginalized identities within media, and Events Coordinator for BAMSFest.
Additionally, Tim can be found performing with local artists Cliff Notez,
Oompa, VQnC, and Will Dailey, as well as session and work-for-hire
opportunities. Most recent, he was nominated for “Session Musician of the Year”
by the 2018 Boston Music Awards. Tim Hall’s work can be found in his
self-produced spoken word EP entitled Colors Of My Soul, and in his
self-published book titled Trust The Process, both of which released in 2016.
Vanesa
Pacheco is a Latina poet. She received her BA in
Literature and Communications from Wheelock College and her MFA in Poetry at
Stonecoast’s Creative Writing program. Vanesa’s fascination with languages and
translation has inspired her to blend English and Spanish in all creative
writing forms with her love for surrealism, horror, and sci-fi. She is also
inspired by the idea of multi-layering in writing, which has led her to
experiment with erasure poetry. She was the poetry editor for the literary
journal Stonecoast Review and has
been published in Delirious Hem; The
Rain, Party, and Disaster Society; Queen Mob’s Teahouse; and Velvet-Tail.
Richard Hoffman
has published four volumes of poetry, Without
Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize
and the Sheila Motton Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; and his new collection Noon until Night. His other books
include the celebrated Half the House: a
Memoir, published in a 20th Anniversary Edition in 2015 with an
introduction by Louise DeSalvo, the
2014 memoir Love & Fury, and the
story collection Interference and Other
Stories. His work, both prose and verse, appears in print and online in such
journals as Agni, Barrow Street, Colorado
Review, Consequence, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, The Literary Review, The
Manhattan Review, Poetry, Witness, World
Literature Today and elsewhere. He is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson
College in Boston, nonfiction editor at Solstice:
A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and an adjunct Assistant Professor at
Columbia University.
