{{short description|American writer}} {{Infobox person | name = Mark Halliday | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1949}} | birth_place = Ann Arbor, Michigan | occupation = {{hlist|Poet|professor|critic}} | known_for = | notable_works = | education = {{Unbulleted list|Brown University {{Small|(B.A., M.A.)}} |Brandeis University {{Small|(Ph.D.)}} }} }} '''Mark Halliday''' (born 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tupelopress.org/authors/halliday |title=Tupelo Press — Mark Halliday |website=www.tupelopress.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720113854/http://www.tupelopress.org/authors/halliday |archive-date=2011-07-20}} </ref> is an American poet, professor and critic. He is author of seven collections of poetry, most recently ''Losers Dream On'' (University of Chicago Press, 2018), ''Thresherphobe'' (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and ''Keep This Forever'' (Tupelo Press, 2008). His honors include serving as the 1994 poet-in-residence at the Frost Place, inclusion in several annual editions of ''The Best American Poetry'' series and of the Pushcart Prize anthology, receiving a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship,<ref>http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/05-06/May/445n-056.cfm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104143611/https://www.ohio.edu/outlook/05-06/May/445n-056.cfm |date=2016-11-04 }} (Announcement of Guggenheim)</ref> and winning the 2001 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<ref>http://www.ohiou.edu/news/00-01/366.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909021230/http://www.ohiou.edu/news/00-01/366.html |date=2006-09-09 }} (Announcement of Rome Prize)</ref>
Halliday earned his BA (1971) and MA (1976) from Brown University, and his PhD in English literature from Brandeis University in 1983,<ref>http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/english/alumni/index.html (Brandeis University English Department Distinguished Alumni)</ref> 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. Since 1996, he has taught at Ohio University, where, in 2012, he was awarded the rank of distinguished professor.<ref>{{cite web|title=OU English Professor Selected as Distinguished Professor|work=WOUB News|publisher=WOUB Public Media}}</ref> He is married to J. Allyn Rosser.
==Personal life==
Mark Halliday was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1949, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Westport, Connecticut. Halliday lost his mother at the age of twenty-five. He has a son, Nicholas, by his first marriage. He is married to American poet Jill Allyn Rosser, whom he met at the University of Pennsylvania. They live in Athens, Ohio, and have a daughter named Devon.
==Literary influences and praise==
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.<ref>http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/grahamultra.html ("The Ultra-Talk Poem and Mark Halliday," by David Graham, ''Valparaiso Poetry Review''</ref> Halliday has acknowledged the influences of New York School poets Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch on some of his poems.<ref>[http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=15317 ''The North'' No. 36, 2005 > ''An Interview with Mark Halliday'' by Martin Stannard]</ref> Charles Pitter for Zouch has said Halliday's poetry "dazzles with verbal precocity."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://zouchmagazine.com/mark-halliday-thresherphobe/#.W-ctdfZ2uUk|title=Zouch|last=Pitter|first=Charles.}}</ref>
==Published works==
'''Poetry'''
* ''Losers Dream On'' University of Chicago Press, 2018 * ''Thresherphobe'' (University of Chicago Press, 2013) * ''Keep This Forever'' (Tupelo Press, 2008) * ''Jab'' (University of Chicago Press, 2002) * ''Selfwolf'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) * ''Tasker Street'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992, Juniper Prize winner) * ''Little Star'' (W. Morrow, 1987, National Poetry Series selection)
'''Criticism'''
* ''Stevens and the Interpersonal'' (Princeton University Press, 1991) * ''The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, co-authored with Allen Grossman) * ''Against Our Vanishing: Winter Conversations with Allen Grossman'' (Rowan Tree Press, 1981, co-authored with Allen Grossman)
==References==
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==External links== * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080229152220/http://www.wiredforbooks.org/markhalliday/ Audio: Recordings of seven works read by Halliday with photograph]}} * [http://www.slate.com/id/3384 Audio: ''Slate'' text and recording of Halliday poem ''Frankfort Laundromat''] * [https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/161.html Poem: Library of Congress > ''Poetry 180'' Series > ''Key to the Highway'' by Mark Halliday] * [http://www.slate.com/id/3398 Audio: ''Slate'' Text and recording of Halliday poem "The Fedge" from ''Slate'']
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