The Kelly Writers House
Fellows Program
Donald Hall
April 16-17, 2007
April 16, 2007 - Reading (streaming
video, mp3)
April 17, 2007 - Discussion (streaming
video, mp3)
Click here for images from Donald Hall's visit. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.
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Donald Hall is the current United States Poet Laureate. He has published fifteen books of poetry, most recently White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (2006); The Painted Bed (2002) and Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of the death from leukemia of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon. Other collections are The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and The Happy Man (1986), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has also published children's books, short stories, plays, and several autobiographical works, such as The Best Day The Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon (2005) and Life Work (1993), which won the New England Book award for nonfiction. His honors include two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, and a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project. Hall served as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989. Poet, novelist and critic John Fuller has said of Hall's work, "It is the hardest thing to write poems as simple and celebratory as these, full of love and observation of the commonplace." Donald Hall reading, April 16, 2007 (PennSound MP3 files):
1. Introduction
by Al Filreis (4:24)
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