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Donald Hall

Donald Hall
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Donald Hall

Born: 20 September 1928 • Died: 23 June 2018

Donald Hall was born on September 20, 1928, and grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. Hall earned a BA from Harvard University and a bachelor of letters degree from the University of Oxford. In 1955, Hall published his first poetry collection, Exiles and Marriages (Viking Press), which was the Academy of American Poet’s Lamont Poetry Selection 1956. His other books are The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015); The Painted Bed (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002); and Without: Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998). He died on June 23, 2018, New Hampshire. (Source)

Poems by Donald Hall

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White Apples by Donald Hall

September 20, 2025
“if he called again / I would put on my coat and galoshes” — Donald Hall
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Love Poem by Donald Hall

May 20, 2011
"You jockey your horse / into the flaming barn." — Donald Hall
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Affirmation by Donald Hall

March 15, 2011
"Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge / and affirm that it is fitting / and delicious to lose everything." — Donald Hall