Salon
A RiverArts Salon is a (virtual) place to learn something new, share ideas, explore interesting topics, see and be seen, and have fun.
Tuesdays from 5 - 5:45, on Zoom
James Allen Hall led a discussion about Kate Daniel's poem, "War Photograph." It's a short and beautiful, but also harrowing. It concerns Nick Ut's famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a napalm attack on a village in the Vietnam War that was published in the New York Times in 1972.
The following link includes the photograph as well as a bit more information on photojournalism and empathy: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/opinion/photojournalism-children-nick-ut.html
Link to Kate Daniel's poem, "War Photograph:" https://poets.org/poem/war-photograph
James Allen Hall's first book of poems, Now You're the Enemy (University of Arkansas, 2008), won awards from Lambda Literary, the Texas Institute, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His second book of poetry, Romantic Comedy, won the 2020 Levis Prize and will be published by Four Way Books in 2023. He is also the author of a book of lyric essays, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2017). He is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Georgia Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, New England Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Washington College, where he directs the Rose O'Neill Literary House.
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