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 competition.Hall, Daniel (1990), Hermit with Landscape, Yale University Press
Hall's second book, Strange Relation, was selected by Mark Doty as winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series.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 and was Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College until 2018. He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.
Awards Ingram Merrill Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts Guggenheim Foundation 1998 Whiting Award 1996 National Poetry Series for Under Sleep 1992-1993 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar 1990 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, for Hermit with Landscape (Yale, 1990), selected by James Merrill 1997-1998 James Merrill House Fellowship in Stonington, CT
Works
A Winter Apple, Amherst Magazine, Winter 2007
Books Hermit with Landscape, (Yale, 1990) Strange Relation, National Poetry Series 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.Brad Leithauser, Getting Things Right, The New York Review of Books, Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996
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.Getting to the point: Memorable verse ranges from the darkly comic to the impressionistic, The Chicago Tribune, Katie Peterson, August 04, 2007
Highly Recommended
References
External links Profile at The Whiting Foundation