Without: Poems

Donald Hall (1928–2018) was a poet born in New Haven, Connecticut, who served as Poetry Editor of The Paris Review from 1953 to 1961 and edited the anthology New Poets of England and America (1957). He and his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, lived at Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire. After Kenyon's death from leukemia in 1995, he wrote Without (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). His long poem The One Day (Ticknor & Fields, 1988) won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He served as United States Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2007 and received the National Medal of Arts.