A Spell in the Pokey

Poetry. Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Hugh Walthall (1948-2015) was born in Roswell, New Mexico, and lived his adult life in Washington D.C., where he was active in the regional poetry community. He worked variously as a taxi driver, dispatcher for a clown service, blueprint copy machine operator and law librarian. In addition to his work as a poet, he was a member of D.C.'s theater community and both appeared in plays and had his own produced. This is his collected poems.