Donald Hall (1928–2018) was born in Connecticut and lived and worked 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 marked a path for literature. His memoir Unpacking the Boxes, published on his eightieth birthday, is excerpted as “Gaudeamus Igitur” in our Library. Hall was a noted essayist, children’s book author, fiction writer, and a US Poet Laureate. Among his many publications are the essay collections Essays After Eighty and A Carnival of Losses: Notes on Nearing Ninety.

Reading Three Poems

by Donald Hall

Donald Hall reads three poems, including work from his collection White Apples and the Painted Stone: Selected Poems 1946–2006 (2006). An excerpt of his memoir, Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry, can be found in our Library.

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