Daniel Hall (poet)

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Daniel Hall is an award-winning American poet. His first book, Hermit with Landscape (Yale, 1990) was selected by James Merrill as the winner of the 1990 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. Hall's second book, Strange Relation, was selected by Mark Doty as winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series. His latest book is Under Sleep (University of Chicago, 2007).

Hall has received awards and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Whiting Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. He has also been an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar. He currently lives in Amherst, Massachusetts and is Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College.