Donald Hall

WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:

Poetry and Ambition, an essay, in Fall 2007
Poetry Readings from Our Interview with Don, a narrative outloud - audio, in Spring 2009
Eleven Days, a memoir, in Spring 2004
Gaudeamus Igitur, an essay, in Spring 2008
Hall’s Index, an essay, in Spring 2009
Donald Hall, an interview, in Narrative Backstage
On Poetry, poetry, in Narrative Backstage

Donald Hall was born in Connecticut in 1928 and today lives and works on his great-grandfather’s farm in New Hampshire. Across more than six decades and twenty books of poetry, Hall’s New England practicality, tenacious passion, and intellectual independence have marked a path for literature. His memoir Unpacking the Boxes was published on his eightieth birthday and is excerpted as “Gaudeamus Igitur” in our Archive. A noted essayist, children’s book author, and fiction writer, Hall is a U.S. Poet Laureate. His most recent collection of poems is White Apples and the Taste of Stone.