AdvertisementDonald Hall, Former Poet Laureate, Dies At 89June 24, 2018NPR StafffacebookEmailDonald Hall, former poet laureate of the United States and author of numerous poetry books, poses in 2006 in the barn of the 200-year-old Wilmot, N.H., farm that has been in his family for four generations. Hall died on Saturday at age 89. (AP)