Poets/Mark Halliday

Mark Halliday

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The guys who drank quarts of Busch last night …

Mark Halliday

The connection between divorced fathers and pizza crusts …

Mark Halliday

I …

Mark Halliday

Though it’s all too clear how unimpressed you are by a cri de cœur …

Mark Halliday

I find I am descending in a propeller plane upon Pasco …

Mark Halliday

Like nearly all women under sixty she would have deftly …

Mark Halliday

For example, I wrote my first poem in 1976 about being in the Vermont house …

Mark Halliday

They got old, they got old and died. But first— …

Mark Halliday

Five more books in a box to be carried out to the car; …

Mark Halliday

It would have been dark but not lugubrious. It would have been …

Mark Halliday

The students eat something and then watch the news, …

Mark Halliday

Sam paused on the stairs. He had forgotten a thing. …

Mark Halliday

The Holy Ghost was browsing in his or her library …

Mark Halliday

In the huddle you said “Go long—get open” …

Mark Halliday

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