Mark Halliday (born 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan)[1] is an American poet, professor and critic.
His honors include serving as the 1994 poet-in-residence at the Frost Place, inclusion in several annual editions of The Best American Poetry series and of the Pushcart Prize anthology, receiving a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship,[2] and winning the 2001 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Mark Halliday was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1949, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Westport, Connecticut.
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.
[6] Halliday has acknowledged the influences of New York School poets Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch on some of his poems.