Meet the Editors of The POM: Michael Hall

Summary

Michael Hall is an accomplished poet and the Submissions Editor for The POM, known for his dynamic poetics and forthcoming poetry collection.

Abstract

Michael David Saunders Hall is a poet deeply invested in the art of poetry, who discovered his passion for the craft in his twenties. With a background in Liberal Arts from the University of Illinois, he has since contributed to numerous literary journals and magazines. Hall's work is characterized by his unique approach to poetry, which he describes as "Extemporaneous Amalgamations of Rhythm and Sound manifested in Poetic Exploration As Conscious Evolution." His creative process is both a cathartic journey and a product of his imagination and spirituality. Currently, he is recognized as a top writer in Poetry on Medium and is the creator and curator of the Bazaar of the Bizarre publication. Hall is working on several book projects, including "Songbook of the Muses" and "Opus №3," with aspirations to release them in the coming years.

Opinions

Hall views poetry as a divine dialogue, with God speaking through his work.
He considers himself an "alchemist of prosody" and an "avant guardian of inspiration," emphasizing his role in transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary through his verse.
Writing is seen as a balance of agony and ecstasy, a process that is both challenging and rewarding.
Hall's poetry is not just a form of self-expression but also a means of conscious evolution and exploration of the deeper aspects of life, from metaphors to metaphysics.
Readers are encouraged to engage with his work and offer support through comments or private messages, indicating a strong appreciation for audience interaction and feedback.

Submissions Editor for The POM

Michael Hall

Michael David Saunders Hall is a poet happily married and living in Illinois and a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Arts, who really didn’t discover his love for poetry until he was twenty.

Propelled by pyrotechnic poetics, he is an imagineer of loose leaf musings, painting songbooks of the muses that live beyond the lines and spaces in between with his E.A.R.S. @ P.E.A.C.E., in which God speaks through and to him in Extemporaneous Amalgamations of Rhythm and Sound manifested in Poetic Exploration As Conscious Evolution. From metaphors to metaphysics, he is a purveyor of the poet tree of discoursing drums beating by any dreams necessary. With imagination as his sixth sense and soul as his quintessence, he is an alchemist of prosody and an avant guardian of inspiration everywhere. For him, writing is truly the balance of delicious agony and sweet ecstasy, always revealing itself as both the process and the product of catharsis.

In the past, his poetry has appeared in various journals and literary magazines such as The Alchemist Review, The Alembic, Drumvoices Revue, Little America, Owen Wister Review, and Xavier Review. In 2014, his work appeared in Coffee Shop Poems, Control Literary Magazine, and ALTPOETICS; in 2015, in Poets of G+ Quarterly; in 2017, in Burnt Hamster; in 2018, in The Pangolin Review and in Ink Sac of Cephalopress; and recently, in 2019 and 2020, in The Poetry Question and the Cajun Mutt Press.

Currently, Michael is a top writer in Poetry on Medium. He is the creator and curator of the Bazaar of the Bizarre publication. He is also working towards publishing his first poetry collection, Songbook of the Muses, composed of his previously published poems, by this time next year. He also has two other books in the works, which he hopes to release in publication by 2024 — one entitled Opus №3, a self-portrait in a confluence of two chapbook-length collections and a poetry suite; and the other tentatively called Black Soul and the Versaphone, an amalgamation of four series poems.

If you would like to leave a tip to thank Michael for his work in The POM, you are welcome to do that here by leaving him a comment or private message.