Judith Hall is an American poet.

Biography

Judith Hall is the author of five poetry collections, including '' To Put The Mouth To '' (William Morrow), selected for the National Poetry Series by Richard Howard; '' Three Trios '', her translations of the imaginary poet JII (Northwestern); and, most recently, ''Prospects ''(LSU Press). She also collaborated with David Lehman on ''Poetry Forum '' (Bayeaux Arts) which she illustrated. She directed the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project and was senior program specialist for literary publishing at the National Endowment for the Arts. Since 1995, she has served as poetry editor of '' Antioch Review '', and her poems have appeared in '' The Atlantic '', ''American Poetry Review '', ''The New Republic '', ''The Paris Review '', ''Poetry'', ''The Progressive '', and other journals, and in the Pushcart Prize and ''Best American Poetry '' anthology series. She taught at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design and, for many years, at the California Institute of Technology, after moving to New York, she taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. Hall received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations.

Awards

* 2006

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* NEA Fellowship * Pushcart Prize * Ingram Merrill Fellowship * 1991 National Poetry Series

Works

Poetry

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Poem-eo (Poem Video)

*“Natural / Work Hard / Ability”, LSU Press on Vime

List of Poems

"The God that Took the Place of Pleasure", ''Boston Review'', DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20160129081442/https://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8633 "The Morning After the Afternoon of a Faun", ''Ploughshares'', Spring 2007
"The Girl's Will; or Optimism", ''Poesy Galore''

Prose

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Anthologies

Reviews

“Judith Hall’s translations of the ancient poet known as J II read as richly researched and imaginatively restored for a contemporary audience. The only catch is that J II never existed . . . For her latest book, ''Three Trios'', Hall concocted the alter ego of J II, a Jewish female poet who lived in the sixth century B.C.E. who wrote the Apocryphal book of Judith as well as a mysterious, coded set of pagan poems associated with the cult of

Dionysius The name Dionysius (; el, Διονύσιος ''Dionysios'', "of Dionysus"; la, Dionysius) was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name ...

. These ‘translations’ emit the same earthiness and sensuality of the best ancient erotic poetry but are framed in Hall's contemporary language – not stale, but sexy. . . . The book is such a complete forgery that it includes a scholarly introduction to J II and footnotes throughout. All of Hall's efforts add up to a powerful, imaginative experiment in poetry.” ''American Poet, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets'' "In the presence of one's own verbal facility, a poet may discover various methods of making things more difficult for herself. Judith Hall's method is twofold: She works with extremely difficult ‘material’, such as cancer and the development of mother-daughter relationships, and she calls upon the verse tradition for ways of handling it. . . . Miss Hall makes genuine poems of considerable power." Henry Taylor on ''Anatomy, Errata'', ''The Washington Times'' "Hall's feminist poetry challenges through psychological authenticity and linguistic struggle -- the assumptions that bind us . . . Insistently clear-eyed and unsentimental, Hall achieves both fluency and linguistic pressures through form. . . . but these forms are never ornamental or derivative. Hall sculpts them to her voice with the precision of Louise Bogan, and with greater inventiveness. She renovates the tradition of love poetry from within; her sonnet sequences, aubades, and epithalamiums are not just anti-Petrarchen, they reevaluate the terms of discourse between men and women beyond anything heard of in the philosophy of George Meredith or Edna St. Vincent Millay."

Bonnie Costello Bonnie Costello (born 1950) is an American literary scholar, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University. Her books include works on the poets Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and W. H. Auden, and ...

on ''To Put The Mouth To'', ''The Gettysburg Review''''The Gettysburg Review, Autumn, 1992''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Judith Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women poets Feminist writers Literary editors Education writers Antioch Review American women academics 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers University of California, Los Angeles faculty California Institute of Technology faculty Columbia University faculty New England College faculty St. Mary's College of Maryland faculty Art Center College of Design faculty Johns Hopkins University alumni Nonverbal communication

External links

Poem-eo (Video art poem) by Judith Hall "NATURAL WORKS / HARD / ABILITY" produced by LSU Press, music by Alec Bernstein