Bryant O'Hara and Edward Hall
Recorded
October 19, 2020
42:07 minutes
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Id:
atl004293
Description
Ed Hall (59) interviews his friend Bryant O'Hara (50) about poetry, his background, writing, and latest manuscript The Ghetto Birds.Subject Log / Time Code
EH and BO talk about their first meeting.
BO talks about the first "real novel" he read: Han Solo at Star's End.
BO talks about going to college, deciding to major in engineering, and hearing T.S. Elliott read his poem in a class he sat in on.
BO talks about being a fan of hard science fiction and recalls the first poem he came across that integrated hard science fiction with poetry.
BO talks about Maria Pariah, his first poem that incorporated science fiction with elements of black futurism.
BO talks about Pandemic Atlanta 2020, a collection of poems, stories, and art.
Participants
- Bryant O'Hara
- Edward Hall