Donald Hall's Books
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Berkshire Eagle, November 7, 2009
...to shove another aside or onto the floor and into relative obscurity. My favorites poets include: Mary Oliver, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Ogden Nash, and Nikki Giovanni. Jack Prelutsky writes great humorous poetry which can be enjoyed by kids of all...
Weirton Daily Times, November 4, 2009
...members, especially members who died during the past year. The ceremony will begin at 8 p.m. with Donald Hall, district deputy, and Ric Fornal, grand knight, heading the agenda for the evening. Refreshments will be served following the ceremony. Pomona...
America Magazine, October 28, 2009
...poets who wrote—and continue to write—into their 80s and beyond, a group that includes Marianne Moore, Stanley Kunitz, Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur and, the most famous, Robert Frost. In a youth-obsessed culture like ours, it is exhilarating to read a...
PublishersWeekly.com, October 2, 2009
...big hits, as were holiday picture books with original stories and holiday themes, like Lucy’s Christmas by Donald Hall, illustrated by Michael McCurdy (David R. Godine); Snow by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Lauren Stringer (Harcourt); I Saw 3 Ships...
Concord Monitor, September 27, 2009
...have won the award is remarkable. They include John Hersey, John Kenneth Galbraith, May Sarton, Henry Steele Commager, Donald Hall, Barbara Tuchman, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Arthur Miller, Maxine Kumin and Tracy Kidder. Among Hale...
About, September 21, 2009
... by Tom Clark , by Gregory Corso Baseball Canto, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti , by Donald Hall , by John Updike Previous posts about baseball and poetry: Baseball Poems Often Populist Summer Perennials (September 2008) (September 2008)...
PensacolaNewsJournal.com, September 18, 2009
...Poet Laureate Donald Hall will offer a poetry reading from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. today at the Ashmore Auditorium of Pensacola Junior College. Hall was appointed the Library of Congress...
Mother Jones, August 13, 2009
...Leaves of Grass, Shakespeare's sonnets: all good, though not particularly Kenyon-ish). Most intriguing recommendation: Without: Poems by Donald Hall...
ABC2 News, July 28, 2009
...new place. The family saves coins in a change jar to buy a new chair. 'Ox-Cart Man' by Donald Hall. A farm family makes and grows things for themselves and sells extra at the market to make money for what they need for the upcoming year, and the cycle...
ABC Action News, July 28, 2009
...new place. The family saves coins in a change jar to buy a new chair. 'Ox-Cart Man' by Donald Hall. A farm family makes and grows things for themselves and sells extra at the market to make money for what they need for the upcoming year, and the cycle...
Lowell Sun, July 24, 2009
...new place. The family saves coins in a change jar to buy a new chair. 'Ox-Cart Man' by Donald Hall. A farm family makes and grows things for themselves and sells extra at the market to make money for what they need for the upcoming year, and the cycle...
Toronto Star Online, July 3, 2009
...the Germans look good. A tremendous and deeply moving book. 5. 'Doc Ellis in the Country of Baseball', Donald Hall Hall is one of Americaâs greatest living poets, and, with this book, establishes himself as one of its greatest baseball writers. His...
Chicago Sun-Times, June 14, 2009
...from fiction and literary nonfiction backgrounds not primarily linked to sports writing: John Buffalo Mailer, son of Norman; Donald Hall; Norman Maclean; Buzz Bissinger; John Ed Bradley; Darcy Frey; Paul Solotaroff; Bill Geist, and others. A few authors...
Los Angeles Daily News, June 14, 2009
...s white towel. 'Fathers & Sons & Sports: Great Writing by Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel, Norman Maclean and others' (ESPN Books, paperback, $15, 319 pages). This first came out in hardback a year ago, but has...
Yankee Magazine, June 11, 2009
...New Hampshire Poet Donald Hall's Memoir Credit: Heath Robbins Donald Hall's memoir, Unpacking the Boxes 'At fourteen I decided to spend my life writing poetry, which is what I have done.' Those...
San Antonio Business Journal, May 30, 2009
...Garrison Keillor Read by: Garrison Keillor and cast, with special guests Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Donald Hall, Allen Ginsberg, and Calvin Trillin Publisher: HighBridge Audio Executive Producer: Tiffany Hanssen Assistant Producer:...
Boston Globe, May 19, 2009
...list of three adjectives, rather than allowing the phrase 'dark and deep' to modify lovely. Robert Pinsky and Donald Hall, each a former US poet laureate, both took issue with such changes. 'The reading I've given it is the accurate one,' Mr. Lathem told...
Jersey Journal, April 28, 2009
...world that brought him into contact with other poets and writers like Robert Lowell, Sylvia Path, Ted Hughes, Donald Hall and others in the United States and Europe. Besides winning numerous national and international awards, Merwin was named in 1999 a...
SignOn San Diego, April 26, 2009
...ranges from a paean to the genius of A.E. Robinson to appreciations of Robert Creeley, Louise Gluck, Donald Hall, Anne Carson, Elizabeth Bishop, Ives Bonnefoy and Zbigniew Herbert. In most cases, he chooses just the right poems to exemplify each writer's...
Vermont Public Radio, April 21, 2009
...the 21st century. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's 'Readings in the Gallery' series: May 29- Robert Bly July 1- Donald Hall July 15- Garret Kaiser and Rigoberto Gonzalez September 9- Marge Piercy for more information call (802) 749-8291 © Copyright 2009, VPR...
Hampton Union, April 16, 2009
...The Music Hall, Mose Allison,-Jazz singer/pianist and composer of countless timeless masterpieces, Former United States Poet Laureate Donald Hall, David Amram, special guests and old friends, Tim Veilleux, Cara Losier and Andrew Periale accompanied by...
San Francisco Business Times, April 14, 2009
...are Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Anthony Hecht, Mona Van Duyn, Hayden Carruth, David Wagoner, John Ashbery, Charles Wright, Donald Hall, A.R. Ammons, Gerald Stern, William Matthews, W.S. Merwin, Maxine Kumin, Carl Dennis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lisel...
The Snapper, April 2, 2009
...Donald Hall, the 14th U.S. Poet Laureate and author of 15 poetry anthologies, visited the campus the evening of Wednesday, March 25th as an early way to usher in the...
PublishersWeekly.com, March 30, 2009
...19451960, with its gathering of edgierindeed, new voiceslike Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Gregory Corso and Jack Spicer, challenged Donald Hall's The New Poets of England and America, which worked a more traditional vein. In the small but contentious...
Macon Telegraph, March 25, 2009
...all-star team to create this sparkling collection of odes. The lineup - Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Linda Gregerson, Donald Hall, W.S. Merwin, Paul Muldoon, Robert Pinsky, C.K. Williams, and others - is breathtaking. They're not only good poets; they're...
The Hindu, February 28, 2009
...Indo-Anglian Poetry? ) in The Concise Encyclopaedia of English and American Poets and Poetry edited by Stephen Spender and Donald Hall. Bose described such poetry as ?a blind alley lined with curio shops, leading nowhere.? Lal copied this...
New York Times, February 9, 2009
...action! Along with drawings by Ed Koren, Lingeman has solicited contributions from a variety of writers. Dan Wakefield, Donald Hall, Roger Wilkins, Howard Zinn, Studs Terkel and others offer brief pieces on My Favorite American Place. Eric Alterman and...
Boston Globe, February 1, 2009
...would be a terrible loss to the city. It's a great cultural institution.' Added US poet laureate Donald Hall: 'I've had many publishers, and never had such a happy relationship. I would regret anything that diminishes them.'How did Houghton get in this...
Register-Guard, January 4, 2009
...further at Harvard University, where he met fellow poet and longtime comrade Kenneth Koch, along with Richard Wilbur, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Frank O?Hara and Robert Creeley. ?Kenneth Koch and I especially saw a lot of each other,? Ashbery said in...
Concord Monitor, December 14, 2008
...life, law and tourism. Each section has essays by noted scholars. Some of the local contributors include poet Donald Hall, state historian Jim Garvin, David Anderson of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Michael Chaney from the New...
One-Minute Book Reviews, October 6, 2009
...Weep for Richard Wilbur and Donald Hall . The London odds-maker Ladbrokes says that in the race for the Nobel Prize in literature that will be announced Thursday, the highest-ranked American poets are Bob Dylan (25-1) and...
Emerging Writer, September 14, 2009
...festival with visiting poets from around the world: Pulitzer prize poet and US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass (USA), Donald Hall (USA), Fleur Adcock (UK), Penelope Shuttle (UK), Aonghus MacNeachail (Scotland) Lidija Dimkovska (Slovenia), Taja Kramberger...
One Poet's Notes, August 28, 2009
...Claudia Emerson, Tess Gallagher, Reginald Gibbons, Jack Gilbert, Madeline Gins, David Gitin, Linda Gregg, Thom Gunn, Marilyn Hacker, Donald Hall, Lyn Hejinian, Edward Hirsch, Linda Hogan, Garrett Hongo, Susan Howe, Andrew Hudgins, Langston Hughes, T.R....
Sarah Browning, June 16, 2009
...in interviews, readings, and archival recordings. Finally, Brooks is showcased in the Essential American Poets archive, selected by Donald Hall during his poet laureateship in 2006. Recorded at the Library of Congress in 1961, Brooks, in her early 30s,...
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue, June 11, 2009
...In the course of listening to Donald Hall’s reading, I was struck by two things in particular. I was first introduced as an undergraduate to Hall’s writing. The simple lyricism and narration, the...
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue, June 11, 2009
...Donald Hall's keynote reading last night was one of the best poetry readings I've ever attended. Hall, who turns 81 in September, seemed frail at dinner but became surprisingly...
The Wooden Spoon, May 5, 2009
...it was slightly disappointing, I thought maybe I'd been awarded a grant!) that included a note from Donald Hall supporting the academy and its various efforts. In the note, Hall (or some impostor) writes, 'Poetry is an individual matter, both in the...
Doggerybaw, April 28, 2009
...THE ALLIGATOR BRIDE The clock of my days winds down. The cat eats sparrows outside my window. Once, she brought me a small rabbit which we devoured together, under the Empire Table while the men shrieked repossessing the gold umbrella. Now the beard on...
Mike Snider's Formal Blog, April 14, 2009
...is his Open Letter from the Margin . The first essay led to an exchange between between McCarthy and Donald Hall , reported in the second, in which Hall says this: But every time I alter a linebreak, and often when I change a noun or a verb, I am doing...
Meeting Grace: The Blog, April 13, 2009
...bookstore in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (though I could be wrong). It was mainly the afterword by Donald Hall that made me curious. If Donald Hall liked it, it must be pretty good. I learned from the book that Joe Salerno had died in 1995 and...
Life at Willow Manor, April 6, 2009
...distant as the curving of the earth, Where the snow hangs still in the middle of the air. . . Donald Hall Hey, did you know April is National Poetry Month? I usually post quite a bit of poetry, anyway, but now I have a wonderful excuse to really lay it...
NarcissusWorks, March 29, 2009
...Margin." And here it is: http://www.standupoet.net/APR. htm An excerpt, discussing his friendly arguments with Donald Hall on the subject of performance poetry: I had occasion to send a pre-publication version of The Worcester Review article to...
Verse, March 10, 2009
...unpopular or otherwise alienating to the reader. Stylistically, Collins is an adept of the McPoem—a phrase coined by Donald Hall and subsequently encapsulated by Reginald Shepherd as “a little reminiscence, a little nature description, a little...
One Poet's Notes, March 8, 2009
...Bly, Luicille Clifton, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Alan Dugan, Stuart Dybek, B.H. Fairchild, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Donald Hall, Michael S. Harper, Robert Hass, Richard Hugo, Donald Justice, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, Kenneth Koch, Maxine...
feminist blogs, March 6, 2009
...These are just a few excerpts from some of my favorite poets. I thought I'd pass them along as a bit of a break from your undoubtedly harried Thursday: "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the...
Bookninja, February 23, 2009
...fretting over its potential loss since at least 1983. That’s the year in which an essay by Donald Hall, the United States poet laureate from 2006 to 2007, appeared in The Kenyon Review bearing the title “Poetry and Ambition.” Hall got right to the...
One Poet's Notes, February 23, 2009
...Bly, Luicille Clifton, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Alan Dugan, Stuart Dybek, B.H. Fairchild, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Donald Hall, Michael S. Harper, Robert Hass, Richard Hugo, Donald Justice, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, Kenneth Koch, Maxine...
Freed widow fears prisons are full of other, January 12, 2009
...Sonny Brewer The Poet of Tolstoy Park A Novel. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Book. Donald Hall The Best Day The Worst Day Life with Jane Kenyon. Poetry Foundation The online home of the Poetry Foundation. Wade Books, An Imprint of...
Blogalicious, November 28, 2008
...link for "Innuendoes" and "On Location," you'll find such poets as Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield, and Donald Hall. There's also a link for Interviews with Poets Laureate. There you'll find the text of those interviews. What a wonderful resource to have...
