Donald Hall is the former Poet Laureate of the United States, former poetry editor of The Paris Review, and has written over 50 genre-spanning books. He joins us to talk about what may be his final collection of poetry, "The Selected Poems of Donald Hall," which features poems from his decades-long career. He also reflects on the poems he wrote following the death of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, and why he chose to write those works in the third person.
For our Poem of the Week, Donald Hall reads MOUNT KEARSARGE, a poem which reflects upon the mountain visible from the front porch of Hall's ancestral New Hampshire home.
Aired Nov. 15, 2015.