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Mark Halliday

Mark Halliday (born 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American poet, professor and critic. He has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Losers Dream On (University of Chicago Press, 2018). His awards include a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship, a Rome Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in the Best American Poetry series and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Since 1996 he has taught creative writing at Ohio University.

Mark Halliday has a BA and an MA from Brown University, and a PhD in English Literature from Brandeis University. Since 1996, he has taught poetry at Ohio University, where he was named Distinguished Professor in 2012.

He has published seven books of poetry (Little Star, 1987; Tasker Street, 1992; Selfwolf, 1999; Jab, 2002; Keep This Forever, 2008; Thresherphobe, 2013; Losers Dream On, 2018), and numerous essays on contemporary and canonical poets. His poetry is known for its colloquial wit, ironic turns, and its search for profundity in the everyday. His critical book Stevens and the Interpersonal was published in 1991 by Princeton University Press.

“And you try to be awake,” growls Mark Halliday. These poems are fully awake, practicing vivisection on their own delusions, complacencies, and sublimities, carving into the tissue of language. Song here sounds more like invoice than voice. Yet its wit reveals the timeless: sorrow for a dying father, a lost wife, and the core recognition of our “dustitude.” A remarkable book.Rosanna Warren
Reading Losers Dream On is like listening in on the constantly shifting, uncomfortable thoughts of a mind brilliantly attuned to the world of memory and to its own intricate (often hilarious) processes. These poems take place in landscapes that seem familiar at first—snow-covered parking lots, an empty Mexican restaurant, airport gates crowded with travelers—but, under Mark Halliday’s gaze, they become dazzling and strange, filled with troublesome knowledge and the possibility of mortality and transcendence. Witty, exciting, and wide-awake, Halliday is one of the best poets at work in America today.Kevin Prufer
Mark Halliday is one of our foremost technicians of the American vernacular. In Halliday’s poems, James Joyce, Leave It To Beaver, and Sir Walter Raleigh all get their turn at the microphone. I admire Halliday’s dedication to coherence, self-interrogation, and endless verbal playfulness. His voice is one of the most reliable, hilarious, effervescent, and moody pleasures in the contemporary canon. His rich new collection, Losers Dream On, holds its own with the high standard of his best work.Tony Hoagland

Wide Receiver

Mark Halliday

Why the HG is Holy

Mark Halliday

The White Helmet

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Time in a Brown House

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There

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The Students

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Sternly Departing

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Quite Frankly

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Poetry Failure

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Pathos of the Momentary Smile

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Pasco, Barbara

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The Missing Poem

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Location

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La Marquise de Gloire

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A KIND OF REPLY

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Ketchup and Heaven

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Human Hunger

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The Halls

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Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts

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Bad People

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All Me

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1946

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