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.

On Poetry

Readings and Reflections

by Donald Hall

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During an interview with Narrative, Hall discussed his life’s work and read aloud from his poems and stories. Now in his early eighties, Hall continues to write every day and to inspire others with his devotion to art. The full text of our interview with Hall, as well as other of his works, can be read in our Library.

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    Becoming a Poet (00:20 preview)

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