Compiled by the University of New Hampshire as part of its special collections exhibit, this site includes a biography of Jane Kenyon's life, samples of her work, a link to an Atlantic Monthly article, and a Real Audio recording of the author reading her poetry. The work of her husband, the poet Donald Hall, is also discussed.

Poems and Audio Recordings Compiled by The Atlantic Monthly
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/kenyon/2poems.htm

This Atlantic Monthly site contains the texts of the poems "Woman, Why Are You Weeping" (1996), "Drawing from the Past" 1996), "Man Eating" (1994), and "Surprise" (1996). The site also contains the capability to download a Real Audio recording of Donald Hall, Kenyon's husband, reading these pieces.

Jane Kenyon: A Complete Bibliography
http://www.graywolfpress.org/resources/authors/authorinfo-kenyon.html

Housed by the Gray Wolf Press, the site contains a complete bibliography of Jane Kenyon's work. Sections of the bibliography include the detailed contents of her collections, uncollected poems, translations, contributions to publications, photographs, broadsides, greeting cards, and video and sound recordings.

Christian Imagery in Jane Kenyon's Work
http://www.christianityonline.com/bc/7b1/7b1022.html

In an article written for Christianity Today's Books and Culture Magazine, Lavonne Neff examines Christian and spiritual imagery in several of Kenyon's pieces and the spirituality within her personal life. This article also takes a look at Kenyon's battle with depression and how it influenced her writing. This site will be of interest to those studying religious themes in Kenyon's work.

An Interview with Donald Hall
http://www.poems.com/halinter.htm

In this touching interview with Judith Moore, Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon's husband, discusses their life together and Kenyon's battle with cancer. This site provides insight into the relationship that was often a topic of Kenyon's work.

BIOGRAPHY
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. in 1970 and her M.A. in 1972. The same year she married a teacher at the university, the poet Donald Hall. After their marriage they moved to Eagle Pond Road in Wilmont, New Hampshire, which had been the home of Hall's family for several generations.

Although Kenyon was to write joyously about her life in rural New Hampshire, she suffered from severe depression throughout her marriage, and her final poems document her struggle against leukemia. Her first book, Let Evening Come, was published in 1990. She described the quiet life she led with her husband in many poems, but she and Hall were also well known through his books about life on their farm. Shortly before her death they were the subject of a television documentary that depicted their shared life of poetry and the changing seasons of their rural countryside.

Kenyon's poetry is delicate and subtle, a poetry of shadings and quiet musings. The poet Carol Muske wrote of her, "These poems surprise beauty at every turn and capture truth at its familiar New England slant."