Donald Hall
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"Donald Andrew Hall, Jr.", known as "Donald Hall" is an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University/Harvard and University of Oxford/Oxford, Hall is the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse. Regarded as a "plainspoken, rural poet," Hall's work "explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet's abiding reverence for nature."

Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of The Paris Review (1953–1961), a prominent quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft. Hall is respected for his work as an academic, having taught at Stanford University, Bennington College and the University of Michigan, who has made significant contributions to the study and craft of writing.

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"). Hall served as poet laureate for one year.

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] came out in 1955, my first reviews were puffs. Then Stanley wrote a long, somewhat censorious review in Poetry magazine. He gave me hell about some things. He said good things about my skill, but it was a case of lots of skill but not much self-knowledge. Stanley was right .

My great-great-grandparents owned the back pew and they were among those who built the structure back in the 1800s.

It is about her death, but it is also about our life together, we were married 23 wonderful years.

I think I'm probably finished writing about it now.

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I came here every year when I was kid.