Reflections on Writing, Publishing & Other Things

by H. Palmer Hall

Book by Hall, Palmer H.

47 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2003

About the author

H. Palmer Hall was born in Beaumont, Texas, during World War II and spent most of his formative years in that city between the Big Thicket and the Gulf Coast. He was a Vietnamese interpreter/translator in the Army and spent the 1967-1968 war year in what was then South Vietnam. After returning from Vietnam, he worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) before being denied access to the Agency for marching in anti-war marches and signing a petition of 1,000+ active-duty soldiers opposed to the war. That petition appeared in The New York Times just before the great anti-war marches in Washington in the fall of 1969.
Hall is the editor/publisher of Pecan Grove Press, a small press operating out of St. Mary's University. His poems, short stories and essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines including North American Review, The Texas Review, The Florida Review, The Texas Observer, Mizna: a journal of Arab American Culture. Briar Cliff Review, Ascent, Small Press Review, WLA: War, Literature & the Arts, Valaparaiso Poetry Review and many others, plus a variety of anthologies.