Daniel J. Hall (born 1952) is an American poet.

Life

Hall's first book, ''Hermit with Landscape'', was selected by James Merrill as winner of the 1989

Yale Series of Younger Poets The Yale Series of Younger Poets is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the debut collection of a promising American poet. Established in 1918, the Younger Poets Prize is the longest-running annual literary award in the Uni ...

competition. Hall's second book, ''Strange Relation'', was selected by

Mark Doty Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work ''My Alexandria.'' He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Early life Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to Lawrence ...

as winner of the 1995

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.Hall, Daniel (1996), ''Strange Relation'', Penguin Books His latest book is ''Under Sleep''. He was a judge for the James Laughlin awards. He currently lives in Amherst,

Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

and was Writer-in-Residence at

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zepha ...

until 2018. He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at

Awards

Ingram Merrill Foundation The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retriev ...

, *

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* Guggenheim Foundation * 1998

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

* 1996 National Poetry Series for ''Under Sleep'' * 1992-1993 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar * 1990

Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition The Yale Series of Younger Poets is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the debut collection of a promising American poet. Established in 1918, the Younger Poets Prize is the longest-running annual literary award in the Uni ...

, for ''Hermit with Landscape'' (Yale, 1990), selected by

James Merrill James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for '' Divine Comedies.'' His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyri ...

* 1997-199
James Merrill House
Fellowship in Stonington, CT

Works

''Then'', University of Chicago

''A Winter Apple'', Amherst Magazine, Winter 2007

Books

* ''Hermit with Landscape'', (Yale, 1990) * ''Strange Relation'',

1995 * ''Under Sleep'', Phoenix Poets, University of Chicago, 2007, .

Interviews

''J. D. MCCLATCHY The Art of Poetry No. 84'', The Paris Review, Issue 163, Fall 2002

Reviews

“Daniel Hall’s work reminds us that a poet’s sharp-sightedness, the whole business of ‘getting things right,’ is a matter of far more than accuracy. It’s a matter of—inescapably—thanksgiving.

Daniel Hall’s poetry also negotiates autobiography and desire, and much of his new collection, ''Under Sleep,'' pairs an impulse to elegy (it is dedicated to his late partner) with a love of perceptual activity, that impressionistic seeing and feeling that comes from the conflicting currents of mind and body and is the backbone of so much lyric poetry.

Highly Recommended

References

External links

Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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