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While not a Vermont poet, Donald Hall like Robert Frost, wrote about, lived in, and celebrated the landscape of northern New England. Hall attended the prestigious Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont at age 16, where he met and was influenced by Robert Frost.
Donald Hall was Poet Laureate of his home state, New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989 and was subsequently appointed the fourteenth U.S. Poet Laureate, succeeding Ted Kooser. He was married to poet and author Jane Kenyon (1947–1995) for 23 years and lived with her until her death. Donald Hall died on June 23, 2018, at the age of 89, at his home in Wilmot, NH.
Read more about Donald Hall at The Poetry Foundation.