Career
He is also the initiator of the Poets Against War movement (2003), which he set up in response to the Iraq War. In 1996, Hamill edited The Gift of Tongues: Twenty-Five Years of Poetry From Copper Canyon Press. In his introduction, Hamill writes an in-depth personal history about Copper Canyon"s path, its commitment to publishing poetry exclusively, and how the press strives to divide its publication list between younger emerging poets, major works by established poets, and poetry in translation.
Hamill"s most recent book, Habitation: Collected Poems, published in 2014 by University of Washington Press, presents some of Hamill"s best poems spanning a career of over 40 years.