Daniel Hall (poet)

Hall's first book, Hermit with Landscape, was selected by James Merrill as winner of the 1989 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.[1]

Hall's second book, Strange Relation, was selected by Mark Doty as winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series.[2] His latest book is Under Sleep.

He was a judge for the James Laughlin awards.[3]

He currently lives in Amherst, Massachusetts[2] and was Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College until 2018.[4] He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.[5]

• Ingram Merrill Foundation,[6]
• National Endowment for the Arts
• Guggenheim Foundation
• 1998 Whiting Award[7]
• 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

• Then, University of Chicago
• A Winter Apple, Amherst Magazine, Winter 2007

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

“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.[8]

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.[9]

Highly Recommended[10]

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation