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Dock Ellis in the Country of BaseballOne of America's finest poets joins forces with one of baseball's most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Donald...Read More
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TheDay.com, February 10, 2012
...U.S. and Connecticut Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners and Guggenheim genius grant honorees. Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Katha Pollit, Marie Howe, Philip Levine, Sue Ellen Thompson, Rennie McQuilkin, Stephen Dobyns...
Hartford Courant, November 9, 2011
...be master of ceremonies. Connecticut author Wally Lamb Reservations: http://ctbookawards.eventbrite.com. Information: 860-695-6296 or ctbookawards@gmail.com. Donald Hall at UConn Co-op On Friday, Nov. 11, at 11:45 a.m., one of America's pre-eminent poets...
Yale Daily News, November 4, 2011
...in life that will just seem to fit. Revision is a really intense process. [United States Poet Laureate] Donald Hall supposedly writes 50 drafts or more. It’s nice to write, take a break, then look at it again. It becomes a routine. It can be both...
New Haven Register, September 14, 2011
...On Friday, Anna and the rest of the community will get to meet former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, the 2011 National Medal of Arts recipient, when he is honored at a ceremony at 7 p.m. in Thornton Wilder Hall of Miller Library, 2901 Dixwell Ave.The...
Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2011
...home in New Hampshire. For the reader boiling in triple-digit SoCal heat at the end of the summer, Donald Hall's "The Back Chamber: Poems" arrives like a sudden cloudburst and shower of cooling rain. Again Hall takes readers into his New Hampshire, a...
Christianity Today, September 7, 2011
...all, the human condition. Let me say here that even though Grace, his previous volume, was awarded the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, I find his voice in this book by and large even more assured. The...
Des Moines Register, August 11, 2011
...about the working class. Several previous laureates either were workshop students at Iowa or faculty members, including Merwin, Donald Hall, Robert Hass and Rita Dove. Levine recently participated in the workshop's 75th anniversary reunion, which brought...
Writing Without Paper, October 10, 2011
...by the Poets Laureate: W.S. Merwin's marvelous three-line "Separation"; Kay Ryan's delightful "Home to Roost"; Donald Hall's matter-of-fact but deeply touching "White Apples"; Elizabeth Bishop's justly praised villanelle "One Art"; Robert Frost's...
FrogenYozurt.Com - Literature & Entertainment, September 13, 2011
...Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com In The Back Chamber , Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—”a cowbell,” “a white stone perfectly round,” “a three-legged milking stool”—that serve to foreground the...
INFOdocket, August 10, 2011
...joins a long line of distinguished poets who have served in the position, including Kay Ryan, Charles Simic, Donald Hall, Ted Kooser, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Richard Wilbur. Levine is the...
Big Think, August 7, 2011
...more numerous and less successful than those in the first (77 Dream Songs, 1964), but I disagree with Donald Hall’s high-handed view that they shouldn't have been written at all: John Berryman wrote with difficult concentration his difficult,...
from the desk of..., July 18, 2011
...a great summer for reading! Books are like magnets--I have very little control.Metaphorical box: mermaids, arrows, headlines. Donald Hall talks about unpacking the boxes. What is in your box? For years I've been keeping different-shaped boxes under...
Deadspin, July 11, 2011
...hangover: In the 1976 book, Dock Ellis: In The Country Of Baseball, written by Ellis and the poet Donald Hall, Dock said he pitched the no-hitter while while drunk on vodka and sobered himself up with "coffee." When the book was republished in 1989, the...
The Chatelaine's Keys, July 4, 2011
...bear and human mothers and children get crossed up. -Picture Books for children from 3-7. 25. _Oxcart Man_ by Donald Hall. If I could recommend one single book for this age group, this would be it. It is a beautiful book, with lovely folk-art...
