Former U.S. and New Hampshire Poet Laureate Donald Hall, who shared more than 350,000 of his works with the UNH Library, died Saturday, June 23. He was 89.
The author of numerous books of poetry and prose, Hall was a longtime resident of New Hampshire. He is known by many for his children's book "Ox-Cart Man." He was Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1984-1989 and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2006-2007.
The Donald Hall Papers are held at UNH. In 2017, UNH’s Milne Special Collections hosted an exhibit of books from Hall’s personal library.
According to his obituary, Hall published his final collection of verse, “The Selected Poems of Donald Hall,” in 2015. His prose collection “Essays After Eighty” appeared in 2014, and “A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety,” is scheduled to be published this summer.
