St. Mary’s College of Maryland graduate Joe Hall ’04 kicks off the college’s annual VOICES Reading Series with a reading from his first book of poetry at 8:15 p.m. Friday, September 10, in the Daugherty-Palmer Commons. The series is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Karen Anderson at 240-895-2017 or klanderson@smcm.edu.

The book of poems, Pigafetta Is My Wife, is a Poetry International Notable Book of the Year and has appeared on the Small Press Distribution Best Seller List. Hall now teaches at the University of Maryland.

St. Mary's College of Maryland, designated the Maryland state honors college in 1992, is ranked one of the best public liberal arts schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Kiplinger's, and The Princeton Review.