It was my great good luck to make the acquaintance of Donald Hall in 2012. I enjoyed three visits with him at Eagle Pond Farm, in Wilmot, NH and a little correspondence. Hall, who had been U.S. Poet Laureate in 2006-07, had so many correspondents that the USPS assigned him his own zip code! Read more >
The video is of a reading in 2019 at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA, to celebrate the publication of an anthology of poems by poets influenced by Donald Hall, U.S. Poet Laureate 2007-08. Afterparty is my poem in that book.