{"id":23191,"date":"2019-09-10T08:39:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveread.me\/?p=288"},"modified":"2019-09-10T08:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:39:08","slug":"donald-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/donald-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Late poet Donald Hall resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"byline\">Article updated September 6, 2019 by <a href=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/contact-berkshirelinks\/\" rel=\"author\">Dave Read<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Following the appearance in a January 2012 edition of the <strong>New Yorker<\/strong> of his now-famous essay &#8220;Out the Window,&#8221; I became acquainted with <strong>Donald Hall<\/strong> and had the pleasure of three visits at <strong>Eagle Pond Farm<\/strong>, with trips to a succession of area restraunts. Also, I attended his last reading and poetry talk in Nov. 2017 at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.unh.edu\/find\/archives\/collections\/donald-hall-papers-1928-2014\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">University of New Hampshire<\/a><\/strong>, as well as his funeral seven months later. This is an aggregation of links to useful, entertaining, and eluciadting items related to Donald Hall, who died on June 23, 2018. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22478\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DavidReadAndDonaldHallAtUNHNov2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DavidReadAndDonaldHallAtUNHNov2017-750x600.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Hall and Dave Read at UNH, Nov. 9, 2017; photo courtesy David J. Murray, ClearEyePhoto.com\" width=\"702\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22478\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Hall and Dave Read at UNH, Nov. 9, 2017; photo courtesy David J. Murray, ClearEyePhoto.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Web of Stories, &#8220;an archive of stories from people who have influenced our world&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; recorded at Eagle Pond Farm, Jan. 2005; there are 111 video clips of 5.5 minutes duration &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webofstories.com\/play\/donald.hall\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Web of Stories<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive, up-to-date, bibliogrphy and related info by the publisher of Poetry magzine &#8211; including 54 poems, several essays by and about him: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poets\/detail\/donald-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poetry Foundation<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>His 2001 essay, &#8220;Death to the Death of Poetry,&#8221; is among the material posted here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poet\/donald-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academy of American Poets<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>In their own words: &#8220;This guide compiles links to resources on Donald Hall throughout the Library of Congress Web site, as well as links to external Web sites that include features on Hall\u2019s life or selections of his work.&#8221; Includes White House video of President Obama presenting him the National Medal of Arts in 20120: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/program\/bib\/hall\/hall.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library of Congress<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/12\/06\/368013634\/at-86-poet-donald-hall-writes-on-but-leaves-verse-behind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR interview, 2014<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Interview by Peter A. Stitt, The Paris Review, The Art of Poetry, No. 43 (Issue 120, Fall 1991); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2163\/donald-hall-the-art-of-poetry-no-43-donald-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Paris Review<\/a>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Notice the pile of disused railroad ties above; Seamus Heaney collected a railroad spike here, then immortalized it in a poem, the monograph\/broadside of which was one of Don&#8217;s prized possessions. When I learned that, after my visits to Wilmot, I looked up Heaney&#8217;s poem, and somehow wound up reading a different Heaney poem, which &#8211; if you&#8217;re not already exhausted, led me to make one of my own:<\/p>\n<p>Machine Learning<\/p>\n<p>The machine delivered<br \/>\nSeamus Heaney&#8217;s poem &#8220;May,&#8221;<br \/>\nwhere I found fontanel &#8211; a treat,<br \/>\nas if I&#8217;d been foraging morels,<\/p>\n<p>but I&#8217;d asked for &#8220;Iron Spike,&#8221;<br \/>\nwherein he visits Eagle Pond,<br \/>\nhome of Don Hall and Jane Kenyon,<br \/>\npoets he had a soft spot for.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; Dave Conlin Read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article updated September 6, 2019 by Dave Read Following the appearance in a January 2012 edition of the New Yorker of his now-famous essay &#8220;Out the Window,&#8221; I became acquainted with Donald Hall and had the pleasure of three visits at Eagle Pond Farm, with trips to a succession of area restraunts. Also, I attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}