New England writer Donald Hall (born 1928) is a major poet in the lineage of Robert Frost. Memoirist, short story writer, essayist, dramatist, critic, and anthologist as well as poet, he is one of the most versatile and respected writers of his...

Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1951 and a B. Litt. from Oxford University in 1953. He was a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University (1954-1957), and from 1957 to 1975...

Interview by David McDonald DAVID MCDONALD: Early in your career, you conducted a number of interviews with famous poets -- T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore come to mind. What did you learn from these interviews? Do any of them,...

"The Museum of Clear Ideas," by New Hampshire-based poet Donald Hall, is among the five poetry finalists for the National Book Awards announced yesterday by the National Book Foundation. The finalists for fiction include E. Annie Proulx's best-selling "The Shipping News" (Scribner's), which...

The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, by Donald Hall. Houghton Mifflin, 258 pages, $23.Jane Kenyon died in the morning 10 years ago, at three minutes before the 8 o'clock news, with her husband, Donald Hall, beside her, in the long, two-story,...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who learned English as a teenage immigrant, will be the new U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Thursday.Simic, who lives in Strafford, will replace another New Hampshire poet, Donald Hall of Wilmot, the poet laureate program, which promotes...

In the following roundtable discussion, poets Hall, Cynthia Huntington, Heather McHugh, Paul Muldoon, and Charles Simic discuss their favorite poems and what makes them special.

In the following interview, Hall discusses his body of work and the state of contemporary poetry and poetry criticism.

In the following interview, Hall discusses his relationship with his late wife and how he has coped emotionally since her death.