Mark Halliday

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Mark Halliday (born 1949) is a noted American poet.

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[edit] Life

Halliday earned his B.A. (1971) and M.A. (1976) from Brown University and a Ph.D. in English literature from Brandeis University in 1983,[1] where he studied with poets Allen Grossman and Frank Bidart. He has taught English literature and writing at Wellesley College, the University of Pennsylvania, Western Michigan University, Indiana University and, since 1996, Ohio University.

[edit] Poetry

Halliday's poetry is characterized by close observation of daily events, out-of-the-ordinary metaphors, unsentimental reminiscence, colloquial diction, references to popular culture, and uncommon humor. The poet David Graham has described Halliday as one of the "ablest practitioners" of the "ultra-talk poem," a term said to have been coined by Halliday himself to describe the work of a group of contemporary American poets, including David Kirby, Denise Duhamel, David Clewell, Albert Goldbarth, and Barbara Hamby, who frequently write in a wry, exuberant, garrulous, accessible style.[2] Halliday has acknowledged the influences of New York School poets Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch on some of his poems.[3] His work has appeared in several annual editions of The Best American Poetry series and of the Pushcart Prize anthology.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.[4] [5] In 2001 he was a winner of the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[6]

[edit] Works

Poetry

  • Little Star (1987) (National Poetry Series selection)
  • Tasker Street (1992) (Juniper Prize winner)
  • Selfwolf (1999)
  • Jab (2002)


Criticism

  • Against Our Vanishing: Winter Conversations with Allen Grossman (1981) (co-authored with Allen Grossman)
  • Stevens and the Interpersonal (1991) (about the poet Wallace Stevens)
  • The Sighted Singer (1991) (a work on poetics co-authored with Allen Grossman)

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/english/grad/grads.html (Brandeis University notable alumni in the Arts)
  2. ^ http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/grahamultra.html ("The Ultra-Talk Poem and Mark Halliday," by David Graham, Valparaiso Poetry Review
  3. ^ [1] (Interview with Halliday from The North, No. 36 (2005)
  4. ^ http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/05-06/May/445n-056.cfm (Announcement of Guggenheim)
  5. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guggenheim_Fellowships_awarded_in_2006 (2006 Guggenheim winners)
  6. ^ http://www.ohiou.edu/news/00-01/366.html (Announcement of Rome Prize)

[edit] External links

  • [2] (Recordings of seven works read by Halliday with photograph)
  • [3] (Text and recording of Halliday poem "Frankfort Laundromat" from Slate)
  • [4] (Text of Halliday poem "Key to the Highway" from the Library of Congress Poetry 180 series)
  • [5] (Text and recording of Halliday poem "The Fedge" from Slate)