[Yale-readings] Donald Hall Reading: February 6, 4pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

Please join us for a poetry reading by former United States Poet Laureate 
Donald Hall on Wednesday, February 6th, at  4 pm. This event is free and 
open to the public. For additional information about poetry at the Beinecke 
Library visit: 
<http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/>http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/. 
The Beinecke Library is located at 121 Wall Street, New Haven.

Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1928. He is the author 
of many collections of poetry including recent titles such as White Apples 
and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006, Painted Bed, and Without: 
Poems. In 1988 Hall's The One Day (1988), won the National Book Critics 
Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Hall has been awarded 
two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost 
Silver Medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers 
and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry. In June 2006, 
Hall was appointed the Library of Congress's fourteenth Poet Laureate 
Consultant in Poetry. He lives in Danbury, New Hampshire.

For more information about Donald Hall and examples of his work visit:
<http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/264>http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/264
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/more_hall.html
<http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum178.php>http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum178.php


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