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{{short description|American writer (1928–2018)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name             = Donald Hall
| image            = Donald Hall.jpg
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1928|9|20}}
| birth_place      = [[Hamden, Connecticut]], U.S.
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2018|6|23|1928|9|20}}
| death_place      = [[Wilmot, New Hampshire]], U.S.
| occupation       = Poet, writer, editor, critic.
| period           = 1950–2018
| genre            = Poetry, essays, children's literature, memoirs, biography
| spouse           = Kirby Thompson (m. 1952–69)<br/>{{marriage|[[Jane Kenyon]]|1972|1995|reason=died}}
| awards           = [[Robert Frost Medal]] (1991)
| education        = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Christ Church, Oxford]] ([[Bachelor of Letter|BLitt]])
}}
'''Donald Andrew Hall Jr.'''<ref>McDowell, Robert. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140611123531/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3401600292.html "Hall, Donald (Andrew Jr.)"] (entry) in ''Contemporary Poets'' (Thomson Learning, 2001).</ref> (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across multiple genres including children's literature, biography, memoirs, essays, plays, sports journalism, and fifteen volumes of verse.<ref name=Simic_article>{{cite magazine |title=The Elegist |last=Simic |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Simic |magazine=[[The New York Review of Books]] |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2006/11/30/the-elegist/ |url-access=limited |date=November 30, 2006}}</ref> He was a graduate of [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], [[Harvard University]], and [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2018/06/24/prolific-painfully-candid-ex-poet-laureate-donald-hall-dies/ |url-access=limited |title=Prolific, painfully candid ex-poet laureate Donald Hall dies |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=June 24, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of ''[[The Paris Review]]'' (1953–1961), the quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft.

On June 14, 2006, Hall was appointed as the [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|Library of Congress's 14th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry]] (commonly known as "Poet Laureate of the United States").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-2001-present.html|title=Poet Laureate Timeline: 2001–present|year=2009|publisher=Library of Congress|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805022616/http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-2001-present.html|archive-date=August 5, 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=2009-01-01|df=mdy}}</ref> He is regarded as a "plainspoken, rural poet," and it has been said that, in his work, he "explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects [an] abiding reverence for nature."<ref name="PoetryFdnBio">{{cite web |title=Donald Hall |website=[[Poetry Foundation]] |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/donald-hall |access-date=November 20, 2012}}</ref>

Hall was respected for his work as an academic, having taught at [[Stanford University]], [[Bennington College]] and the [[University of Michigan]], and having made significant contributions to the study and craft of writing.

==Life and career==

===Early life and education===
Hall was born in [[Hamden, Connecticut]], the only child of Donald Andrew Hall, a businessman, and Lucy Wells.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2163/donald-hall-the-art-of-poetry-no-43-donald-hall|title=Donald Hall, The Art of Poetry No. 43 |last=Stitt |first=Peter A. |date=1991 |work=The Paris Review |access-date=2018-06-24 |issue=120 |volume=Fall 1991|language=en|issn=0031-2037}}</ref> He was educated at [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], then earned an [[A.B.]] [[magna cum laude]] from [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1951, where he was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and a [[Bachelor of Letters|B.Litt.]], from [[Christ Church, Oxford]] in 1953.

Hall began writing even before reaching his teens,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/06/24/623033688/donald-hall-former-poet-laureate-dies-at-89|title=Donald Hall, Former Poet Laureate, Dies At 89|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-06-29|language=en}}</ref> beginning with poems and short stories, and then moving on to novels and dramatic verse. He continued to write throughout his prep school years at Exeter, and, while still only sixteen years old, attended the [[Bread Loaf Writers' Conference]], where he made his first acquaintance with the poet [[Robert Frost]]. That same year, Hall published his first work. While an undergraduate at Harvard, he served on the editorial board of ''[[The Harvard Advocate]]'', and got to know a number of people who, like him, were poised with significant ambitions in the literary world, amongst them [[John Ashbery]], [[Robert Bly]], [[Kenneth Koch]], [[Frank O'Hara]], and [[Adrienne Rich]].<ref name=NYTimes_obit>{{Cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 24, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/obituaries/donald-hall-a-poet-laureate-of-the-rural-life-is-dead-at-89.html|title=Donald Hall, a Poet Laureate of the Rural Life, Is Dead at 89 |access-date=2018-06-24|language=en |last1=Kirby |first1=David }}</ref> During his senior year, Hall won the [[Glascock Prize]] that Koch had won 3 years earlier.

After leaving Harvard, Hall went to Oxford for two years to study for the B.Litt. He was editor of the magazine ''[[Oxford Poetry]]'', literary editor of ''Isis'', editor of ''New Poems'', and poetry editor of ''[[The Paris Review]]''. At the end of his first Oxford year, he won the university's [[Newdigate Prize]], awarded for his long poem, "Exile".<ref>{{Cite book|year=2016 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcIPDQAAQBAJ&q=newdigate+Prize+Donald+Hall&pg=PT5|title=A Study Guide for Donald Hall's 'Names of Horses' |publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning| isbn=978-1-4103-5358-0|language=en}}</ref> In September 1952, he married his first wife, Kirby Thompson, with whom he had a son and daughter.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://theamericanscholar.org/one-road|title=One Road|last=Hall|first=Donald|date=2013-03-01|magazine=The American Scholar|access-date=2018-06-29|language=en-US}}</ref>

Upon returning to the U.S., Hall went to [[Stanford University]] for one year as a creative writing fellow, studying under the poet-critic [[Yvor Winters]]. Hall then returned to Harvard, where he spent 1954–1957 in the Society of Fellows.<ref name=EBSCO_article>{{cite web |last=Scruton |first=James |date=2021  |url=https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/literature-and-writing/donald-hall |title=Donald Hall |website=[[EBSCO Information Services|EBSCO]]}}</ref> During that time, he published his first book of poems, ''Exiles and Marriages''. In 1957, he co-edited with [[Robert Pack (poet and critic)|Robert Pack]] and [[Louis Simpson]] a poetry anthology that was to make a significant impression on both sides of the Atlantic, ''[[New Poets of England and America]]''. Its preference for formal, academic verse was later contrasted with [[Donald Allen]]'s 1960 anthology, ''[[The New American Poetry 1945–1960]]'', which emphasized experimental verse.<ref>{{cite web  |url=https://www.cprw.com/Rother/newengland2.htm |website=Contemporary Poetry Review |date=2003 |last=Rother |first=James |title=Anthology Wars (Part 2)}}</ref> From 1958 to 1964, Hall served as a member of the editorial board for poetry at [[Wesleyan University Press]].<ref>{{cite web |archive-date=November 20, 2008 |url=http://waywiser-press.com/imprints/seven.html|title=Seven American Poets in Conversation |df=mdy-all |url-status=dead |access-date=October 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120124039/http://www.waywiser-press.com/imprints/seven.html}}</ref> In 1968, he signed the "[[Writers and Editors War Tax Protest]]" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against U.S. involvement in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Writers and Editors War Tax Protest |date=January 30, 1968 |newspaper=[[New York Post]]}}</ref>

===Marriage to Jane Kenyon===
In 1967, Hall and his wife, Kirby, separated; the couple divorced in 1969.<ref name=NYTimes_obit/> While teaching at the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], he met the poet [[Jane Kenyon]], whom he married in 1972.<ref name=":0" /> Three years later, the couple moved to Eagle Pond Farm, his grandparents' former home in [[Wilmot, New Hampshire]]. Hall and Kenyon were profiled at their home in a 1993 PBS documentary, "A Life Together", which aired as an episode of ''[[Bill Moyers Journal]]''. In 1989, when Hall was in his early sixties, it was discovered that he had [[Colorectal cancer|colon cancer]]. Surgery followed, but by 1992 the cancer had metastasized to his liver. After another operation, and chemotherapy, he went into remission, though he was told that he only had a 1 in 3 chance of surviving the next five years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Reynolds |first=Susan Salter |date=June 24, 2006 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title=It all leads back to Eagle Pond |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-24-et-poetlaureate24-story.html}}</ref>

Then, early in 1994, it was discovered that Kenyon had [[leukemia]]. Her debilitating illness, her death fifteen months later, and Hall's struggle to come to terms with these tragedies, were the subject of his 1998 poetry collection, ''Without'', which contains poems written in an [[epistolary poem|epistolary]] format. A subsequent poetry collection dedicated to Kenyon, ''The Painted Bed'', is cited by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' as "more controlled, more varied and more powerful, this taut follow-up volume reexamines Hall's grief while exploring the life he has made since. The book's first poem, 'Kill the Day,' stands among the best Hall has ever written. It examines mourning in 16 long-lined stanzas, alternating catalogue with aphorism, understatement with keen lament: 'How many times will he die in his own lifetime?'"<ref>{{cite web |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780618187898|title=''The Painted Bed'' by Donald Hall |access-date=October 18, 2025}}</ref>

===Writing career===
[[File:Donald Hall receiving his National Medal of Arts. (5492692544).jpg|thumb|President [[Barack Obama]] awarding Hall with the National Medal of Arts]]
Hall published fifteen books of poetry. Two of these—''The One Day'' (1988) and ''Old and New Poems'' (1990)—were included by critic [[Harold Bloom]] in his list of works constituting the [[The Western Canon|Western Canon]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bloom |first=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace |isbn=978-0-15-195747-7 |edition=1st |location=New York, NY |pages=566}}</ref> Hall's later collections, "generally regarded as the best of his career",<ref name="PoetryFdnBio"/> included ''Without'' (1998), ''The Painted Bed'' (2002), and ''White Apples and the Taste of Stone'' (2006).<ref name=Simic_article/> His recurring themes in poetry were [[New England]] rural living, baseball, and how work brings meaning to ordinary life. He was considered a master both of received [[poetic form|forms]] and [[free verse]], and a champion of the art of revision, for whom poetry is a craft, not merely a mode of self-expression.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Donald Hall on Revision |last=Hall |first=Donald |magazine=Underbelly |date=January 8, 2019 |url=https://www.underbellymag.com/blog/2018/12/22/donald-hall-on-revision/}}</ref>

In addition to his poetry collections, Hall wrote children's books (notably ''[[Ox-Cart Man]]'', which won the [[Caldecott Medal]]), several memoirs (such as ''String Too Short to be Saved'', ''Life Work'', and ''Unpacking the Boxes''), and a number of plays.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 22, 2000 |language=en |url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/donald-hall|title=Donald Hall |access-date=June 24, 2018|website=Poets.org}}</ref> He also turned his hand to reviews, criticism, textbooks, sports journalism, and biographies. He devoted substantial time to editing, for example, between 1983 and 1996, he oversaw publication of more than sixty titles for the University of Michigan Press. Starting in 1994, he was closely affiliated with the [[Bennington College|Bennington College's]] graduate writing program, giving lectures and readings annually.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bennington.edu/news-and-features/remembering-donald-hall |title=Remembering Donald Hall |date=June 25, 2018 |publisher=[[Bennington College]]}}</ref>

Among Hall's many honours and awards were: the [[Lamont Poetry Prize]] for ''Exiles and Marriages'' (1955), the Edna St Vincent Millay Award (1956), two Guggenheim Fellowships (1963–64, 1972–73), inclusion on the Horn Book Honour List (1986), the Sarah Josepha Hale Award (1983), the [[Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize]] (1987), the [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] for Poetry (1988), the NBCC Award (1989), the [[Los Angeles Times]] Book Prize in poetry (1989), and the [[Poetry Society of America#Awards given by the Poetry Society of America|Frost Medal]] (1990). He was nominated for the [[National Book Award]] on three occasions (1956, 1979 and 1993). In 1994, he received the [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]] for his lifetime achievement.

For five years (1984–89), Hall was [[Poet Laureate]] of his home state, [[New Hampshire]]. He was subsequently appointed the fourteenth [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|U.S. Poet Laureate]], succeeding [[Ted Kooser]].<ref>{{cite news | first=Beverley | last=Wang | title=Donald Hall named nation's poet laureate | date=June 14, 2006 | publisher=Associated Press | url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060614/ap_en_ot/poet_laureate }}</ref> He began serving on October 1, 2006, and was succeeded the following year by [[Charles Simic]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Motoko |last=Rich |title=Charles Simic, Surrealist With Dark View, Is Named Poet Laureate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/books/02poet.html?ex=1343880000&en=591f301dff2a8100&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |date=August 2, 2007 |newspaper=New York Times}}</ref> At the time of his appointment, Hall was profiled in an episode of ''[[The News Hour with Jim Lehrer]]'' which aired on October 16, 2006. Hall was awarded the 2010 [[National Medal of Arts]] by President [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/01/president-obama-award-2010-national-medal-arts-and-national-humanities-m|title=President Obama to Award 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal|date=2011-03-01|access-date=2018-06-29|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|language=en}}</ref>

Hall's penultimate work is a 2018 recording of an eleven-song cycle on the topic of mortality, entitled "Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss After 60."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/24/3-things-millennials-can-learn-from-their-older-coworkers.html|title=3 things millennials can learn from their older coworkers|author1=Deepak Chopra|author2=Kabir Sehgal|date=2018-05-24|work=CNBC|access-date=2018-06-29}}</ref> The poems/songs are written and read by Hall; the music is by Grammy Award-winning composer [[Herschel Garfein]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://heymancenter.org/events/mortality-mansions/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624195127/http://heymancenter.org/events/mortality-mansions/ |archive-date=June 24, 2019 |title=Mortality Mansions |publisher=The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University |language=en}}</ref>

His last book ''A Carnival of Losses: Essays Nearing Ninety'' was published on July 10, 2018.

===Film===
Hall was the subject of a short documentary by Paul Szynol called ''Quiet Hours''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/movies/2017/12/06/slamdance-film-festival-unveils-five-beyond-features-and-67-short-films/|title=Slamdance Film Festival unveils five Beyond features and 67 short films|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|access-date=2018-06-29|language=en-US |last=Means |first=Sean}}</ref> He also appeared in [[Ken Burns|Ken Burns']]s 1994 documentary on baseball.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/baseball/ Baseball: A film by Ken Burns], ''PBS'', 2010, Retrieved December 27, 2013.</ref>

=== Music ===
Hall was the subject of "Great Gig in the Sky," the 5th track of [[Roger Waters]]' album [[The Dark Side of the Moon Redux]], released on October 6th, 2023. The song discusses Hall's death, in which his assistant, Kendel Currier, contacts Waters informing him that Hall is in the hospital with sinus cancer. The song continues, eventually revealing that an estate sale was organized for the Eagle Pond Farm, where Waters requested "a couple of bale hooks and some baling twine from the barn." 
The lyrics refer to Hall's "red chair" - although his chair, famously, was blue. Whether this is a mistake or artistic licence is unclear. The song ends with "Well, R.I.P., Donald Hall."<ref>{{cite web |title=Great Gig in the Sky |url=https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Roger-Waters/Great-Gig-in-the-Sky |website=[[Musixmatch]] |date=2023}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Hall lived at Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire, a small town in [[Merrimack County]].<ref name=NYTimes_obit/> He was married to poet and author [[Jane Kenyon]] (1947&ndash;1995) for 23 years and lived with her until her death.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Intimacy and Solitude |last=Stevenson |first=Peter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Stevenson-t.html |work=The New York Times |date=November 7, 2008 |access-date=June 24, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

Donald Hall died on June 23, 2018, at the age of 89, at his home in Wilmot.<ref>{{Cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403035058/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/24/donald-hall-former-poet-laureate/hGJudegZ2p6DkzIshiWvpO/story.html |title=Donald Hall, former US poet laureate, dies at 89 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/24/donald-hall-former-poet-laureate/hGJudegZ2p6DkzIshiWvpO/story.html|website=[[The Boston Globe]] |access-date=June 24, 2018  |archive-date=April 3, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Selected awards and honors==
* 1951: Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize<ref name=EBSCO_article/>
* 1952: [[Newdigate Prize]]
* 1955: [[Lamont Poetry Prize]], for ''Exiles and Marriages''
* 1956: [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] Award
* 1956: Nomination for the [[National Book Award]]
* 1963–1964: [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]
* 1972–1973: Guggenheim Fellowship
* 1979: Nomination for the National Book Award
* 1980: [[Caldecott Medal]] for [[Ox-Cart Man]]
* 1984–1989: Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
* 1983: [[Sarah Josepha Hale]] Award
* 1986: [[The Horn Book Magazine|''Horn Book'']] Honour List
* 1987: [[Lenore Marshall]] Poetry Prize
* 1988: National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
* 1989: ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' Book Prize in Poetry
* 1990: [[Robert Frost Medal]] from the [[Poetry Society of America]]
* 1991: Honorary Doctor of Letters (in honoris causa) from [[Bates College]]
* 1993: Nomination for the National Book Award
* 1994: [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]] for his lifetime achievement
* 1999: [[L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award]] for ''Without: Poems''
* 2006–2007: Fourteenth U.S. Poet Laureate
* 2010: [[National Medal of Arts]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Report 2010 |date=April 15, 2011 |url=https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/2010-NEA-Annual-Report.pdf |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |pages=23–24}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
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===Poetry===
* 1952: ''Exile''
* 1952: ''Fantasy Poets Number Four'' 
* 1955: ''Exiles and Marriages'' 
* 1957: ''[[New Poets of England and America]]''
* 1958: ''The Dark Houses'' 
* 1964: ''A Roof of Tiger Lilies''
* 1962: ''New Poets of England and America: Second Selection''
* 1969: ''The Alligator Bride'' 
* 1971: ''The Yellow Room: Love Poems''
* 1975: ''The Town of Hill'' 
* 1975: ''A Blue Wing Tilts at the Edge of the Sea: Selected Poems, 1964–1974''
* 1978: ''Kicking the Leaves''
* 1979: ''The Toy Bone''
* 1981: ''The Wilderness Years''
* 1986: ''The Happy Man''
* 1988: ''[[The One Day]]''
* 1990: ''Old and New Poems''
* 1993: ''The Museum of Clear Ideas''
* 1996: ''The Old Life''
* 1998: ''Without: Poems''
* 2000: ''Two by Two'' (with [[Richard Wilbur]])
* 2002: ''The Painted Bed''
* 2006: ''White Apples and the Taste of Stone''
* 2011: ''The Back Chamber''
* 2015: ''The Selected Poems of Donald Hall''

===Essays===
* 1978: ''Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970–76''
* 1983: ''The Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977–81''
* 1985: ''Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sports (Mostly Baseball)''
* 1988: ''Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982–88''
* 1995: ''Death to the Death of Poetry: Essays, Reviews, Notes, Interviews''
* 1995: ''Principal Products of Portugal: Prose Pieces''
* 2014: ''Essays After Eighty''
* 2018: ''A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety'' (published posthumously)

===Biography===
* 1966: ''[[Henry Moore]]''
* 1976: ''Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball''
* 1978: ''Remembering Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions''<ref group=lower-alpha name=remembering/>
* 1992: ''Their Ancient Glittering Eyes''<ref group=lower-alpha name=remembering>
Full titles imply a biographical memoir covering four poets, expanded to cover seven.
* ''Remembering Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions: Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound''
* ''Their Ancient Glittering Eyes: Remembering Poets and More Poets: Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Yvor Winters, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound''
*''Old Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions. Introduction by Wesley McNair ''</ref>
* 2021: ''Old Poets''
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===Drama===
* 1965: ''An Evening's Frost''
* 1975: ''[[Bread and Roses]]''
* 1983: ''Ragged Mountain Elegies''

===For children===
* 1959: ''Andrew the Lion Farmer''
* 1977: ''Riddle Rat''
* 1979: ''[[Ox-Cart Man]]'' (illustrated by [[Barbara Cooney]])
* 1981: ''The Mooch, A Canine Adventure''
* 1984: ''The Man Who Lived Alone''
* 1994: ''The Farm Summer 1942'' (illustrated by [[Barry Moser]])
* 1994: ''I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat'' (illustrated by Barry Moser)
* 1994: ''Summer of 1944''
* 1994: ''Lucy's Christmas''
* 1995: ''Lucy's Summer''
* 1995: ''The Pageant'' (illustrated by Barry Moser)
* 1996: ''Old Home Day''
* 1996: ''When Willard Met Babe Ruth'' 
* 1997: ''The Milkman's Boy''

===Short stories===
* 1987: ''The Ideal Bakery''
* 2003: ''Willow Temple: New and Selected Stories''

===Memoirs===
* 1961: ''String too Short to Be Saved''
* 1987: ''Seasons at Eagle Pond''
* 1992: ''Here at Eagle Pond''
* 1993: ''Life Work''
* 2005: ''The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon''
* 2007: ''On Eagle Pond''
* 2008: ''Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry''

===Textbooks===
* 1981: ''To Read Literature''
* 1992: ''To Read a Poem''
* 1994: ''Writing Well'' (later editions with [[Sven Birkerts]])

===Recorded===
* 2018: ''Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss after 60'' (with [[Herschel Garfein]], Michael Slattery, and [[Marnie Breckenridge]]) <ref>{{cite web | url=https://delosmusic.com/recording/mortality-mansions/ | title=Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss after 60 }}</ref>
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==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Wikiquote}}
*{{cite journal| url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2163/the-art-of-poetry-no-43-donald-hall| journal=The Paris Review| title=Donald Hall, The Art of Poetry No. 43| date=Fall 1991| author=Peter A. Stitt | volume=Fall 1991| issue=120}}
*"[https://www.identitytheory.com/donald-hall/ Donald Hall, Poet Laureate of the United States, talks with Robert Birnbaum]" on ''Identity Theory'' website, posted December 18, 2006
*[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/double-solitude "Between Solitude and Loneliness"] by Donald Hall, ''New Yorker'', October 15, 2016
*[https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/hall/hall.html Resources on Donald Hall from the Library of Congress]

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