Joe WeilJoe Weil is a poet and Associate professor in the English department at Binghamton University. He also plays piano, guitar, tin whistle, and various instruments of his own making. He is available for readings-- virtual or on site, and he can be contacted at [email protected].
His poems, Short stories, review,essays and notable quotes have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker The Boston Review, Paterson Literary Review, Big Hammer, Rattle, Saranac Review, Lips, Poet Lore, National Labor Forum, Chicago Quarterly Review, and the Louisiana review, among others. He has appeared on PBS and read his poetry both on Pacifica Radio and NPR. Weil helped found Monk Books with Bianca Stone and Adam Fitzgerald, ThethePoetry and Redux Consortium (Cat-in-the-sun-press) with his wife and Micah Towery, and the online magazine Shrew. He has co-hosted reading series at the Baron Art Center in Woodbridge. New Jersey (1989 until 2005,) The Sumei Multidisciplinary Art center in Newark, and the summer series at the former Knitting Factory in Manhattan as well as hosting the Weil/Wiler show at the Bowery Poetry Club with his friend, the late poet, Jack Wiler. Before becoming a teacher in the arts, Weil worked for 20 years in a factory as a tool grinder. He was a chief shop steward in the Teamster's union and remains dedicated to union causes. He is new to websites and is figuring this out as he goes along, but he wants to create a forum for reinvigorating union and labor consciousness. |
Book by Joe Weil
Here re some books of mine available
All these Books can be purchased on line. My Latest book is Helping the Village Idiot Feed The Chickens by Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books. West of Home is a book I did with my wife , the poet, Emily Vogel for Blast press in 2013 . Painting the Christmas Trees is by Texas Review press and Redux: A field Manual, I did for Circus Books. They are all available via Amazon or on Barnes and Noble. I will probably make some of my earlier out of print books available to read on this site. I want to help my publishers out so, by all means, help me do that by buying one of these books.