Joe Weil is a piano player, lecturer, and poet who grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey's 4th largest city, a part of that larger continent Weil refers to as "outer Queens." He has published three chap books of poetry, including A Portable Winter (Iniquity press/Vendetta books), with an introduction by the late Harvey Pekar. In addition to the chaps, Weil has published three full length books of poetry, the latest of which is The Plumber's Apprentice (New York Quarterly books). He has read with Allen Ginsberg, Stephen Dunn, Patricia Smith, Jan Beatty, and Louise Gluck, and others. He has also played piano with the great tenor sax player Sweet Sue Terry, and the clarinetist, Perry Robinson. Weil does not like biographies. He once claimed he had been a large and extremely attractive onion during the reign of the Persian satraps. This seemed more interesting to him than the usual humble "bragging" peculiar to bios.. Weil teaches poetry as well as fiction at Binghamton University. He is glad to be there. He is glad to be anywhere.
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