Neal Hall - Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)

Bio

Dr. Neal Hall is a medical-surgical eye physician and graduate of Cornell and Harvard Universities. An internationally acclaimed poet, he has performed poetry readings throughout the United States and internationally to include: Kenya, Indonesia, France, Jamaica, Morocco, Canada, Nepal, Italy and India. He is an award-winning author of four books of poetry: Nigger For Life, reflecting his painful discovery, that in “unspoken America,” race is the one thing by which he is first judged; Winter’s A’ Coming Still, reflecting poignantly the more things are said to change, the more things are made to stay the same. His third book Where Do I Sit will be released this year. Appalling Silence – selections of his work – has been translated into Telugu and Urdu and published in India.