Inviting all for an evening of Protest Poems by Dr. Neal Hall with an occasional scattering of Romantic poems.

About Dr. Neal Hall: An internationally acclaimed award winning poet, Neal Hall, M.D., has performed readings throughout the U.S. and around the world. His poetic writings and readings bear strong witness to his passionate belief in equality and our collective rights to think, live and make harmonious decision based on our common good.

Dr. Hall is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poet and author of four
books: Nigger For Life, Winter’s A’ Coming Still, Where Do I Sit. and Appalling Silence (translated into Urdu and Telugu by poets Jameela Nishat and the Sahitya Akademi award winner Volga respectively).
Dr. Hall has reached audiences across the world—from Philadelphia to France and from
Indonesia to Italy. His poetry speaks not just to the surface pain of injustice and inhumanity but deep into that pain we label and package into genteel socio-politicaleconomic-religious constructs to blur the common lines of cause, that is our shared
story. The intellectual Cornel West, PhD remarked “ his poetry has the capacity to change
ordinary people’s philosophy on social and racial issues.” Dr. Hall has been awarded a Visiting Scholar: • Visiting Scholar the American Academy In Rome,
• Sangam House International Writer’s Residency • Sangam House Dhwani Fellowship to translate his work in Kannada • Poet/Scholar-In-Residence by Hyderabad’s Council For Social Development and a • Resident (Poet)-In-Writing, Vermont Studio Center, U.S.
Dr. Hall was recently invited to a special reading of his poetry by the Sahitya Akademi India’s Vasanth Kannabiran remarked: “ This is poetry that scalds you into waking up to
the possibility that you are perhaps one of those silent spectators. All in all he is a poet.
And unquestionably one of the most significant voices of the century. ” All are welcome to this evening of enthralling poetry and verse. Entry - Free.