John S. Hall

John S. Hall (born John Charles Hall; September 2, 1960) is an American poet, author, singer and lawyer perhaps best known for his work with King Missile, an avant-garde band that he co-founded in 1986 and has since led in various disparate incarnations. John S. Hall was born on September 2, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Manhattan's West Village. He recalls being "very quiet and shy" as a child, and a social outcast as an adolescent. In 1978 he graduated from Stuyvesant High School. In the early 1980s, Hall began participating in the Lower East Side poetry scene. He read his poems at such venues as Speakeasy and ABC No Rio. According to performance poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Hall "became an easily recognizable figure in...