Mark Halliday (born 1949 inAnn Arbor, Michigan)^[1] is an American poet, professor and critic. He is author of seven collections of poetry, most recentlyLosers Dream On (University of Chicago Press, 2018),Thresherphobe (University of Chicago Press, 2013) andKeep This Forever (Tupelo Press, 2008). His honors include serving as the 1994 poet-in-residence at theFrost Place, inclusion in several annual editions ofThe Best American Poetry series and of thePushcart Prize anthology, receiving a 2006Guggenheim Fellowship,^[2] and winning the 2001Rome Prize from theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters.^[3]

Halliday earned his BA (1971) and MA (1976) fromBrown University, and his PhD in English literature fromBrandeis University in 1983,^[4] where he studied with poetsAllen Grossman andFrank Bidart. He has taught English literature and writing atWellesley College, theUniversity of Pennsylvania,Western Michigan University,Indiana University. Since 1996, he has taught atOhio University, where, in 2012, he was awarded the rank of distinguished professor.^[5] He is married toJ. Allyn Rosser.

Mark Halliday was born inAnn Arbor, Michigan, in 1949, and grew up inRaleigh, North Carolina, andWestport, 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 inAthens, Ohio, and have a daughter named Devon.

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 poetDavid 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 contemporaryAmerican poets, includingDavid Kirby,Denise Duhamel,David Clewell,Albert Goldbarth, andBarbara Hamby, who frequently write in a wry, exuberant, garrulous, accessible style.^[6] Halliday has acknowledged the influences ofNew York School poetsFrank O’Hara andKenneth Koch on some of his poems.^[7] Charles Pitter for Zouch has said Halliday's poetry "dazzles with verbal precocity."^[8]

Poetry

• Losers Dream OnUniversity 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 withAllen Grossman)
• Against Our Vanishing: Winter Conversations with Allen Grossman (Rowan Tree Press, 1981, co-authored withAllen Grossman)

• Audio: Recordings of seven works read by Halliday with photograph^[usurped]
• Audio:Slate text and recording of Halliday poemFrankfort Laundromat
• Poem: Library of Congress >Poetry 180 Series >Key to the Highway by Mark Halliday
• Audio:Slate Text and recording of Halliday poem "The Fedge" fromSlate

• 1949 births
• Living people
• American male poets
• Brandeis University alumni
• Brown University alumni
• Ohio University faculty
• People from Athens, Ohio
• Poets from Ohio
• Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan

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