In this revealing interview with ELIMAE Magazine's B. Renner, you'll obtain a good amount of information about Donald Hall. A frank and candid look at the poet and his works.

Academy of American Poets: Donald Hall
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=276

The purpose of the Academy of American Poets is "…to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry." On this, their Donald Hall page, you'll find some outstanding information about the writer, from an extensive bibliography, to a good list of links, to other Donald Hall exhibits on the web. This is a fine first stop when preparing to research the writer.

Life at Eagle Pond: The Poetry of Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall
http://www.izaak.unh.edu/specoll/exhibits/kenhall.htm

This page, hosted by the library at the University of New Hampshire, gives you an excellent look at the relationship between Hall and his wife, Jane Kenyon. The page posts biographies of both writers, along with full-text versions of some select poems, a link to the Atlantic Monthly's "An Audible Anthology" (when Hall reads from his and Kenyon's poetry), and a draft of the Hall's "Ox-Cart Man." A good site to visit if you are pursuing advanced research on the writer.

BIOGRAPHY
Donald Hall (b. 1928) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He began writing poetry and fiction at age 12 and published his first poem at age 16. He received his B.A. from Harvard University, where he met Robert Bly, Adrienne Rich, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara. After Harvard, Hall studied at Oxford for two years and became the first American to win the Newdigate Award. When he returned to the United States, Hall published his first collection of poetry, Exile (1952). His 1955 collection, Exiles and Marriages, won the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. He has published 14 volumes of poetry, including The Happy Man, (1986), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Pulitzer prize nomination. In addition to his poetry, Hall has published several biographies, essays, and books of criticism. His honors include two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publishers Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry. Since 1975 he has taught English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.