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In this June 13, 2006, file photo, Donald Hall, author of numerous poetry books, poses in the barn of the 200-year-old Wilmot farm that has been in his family for four generations. Hall, a prolific, award-winning poet and man of letters widely admired for his sharp humor and painful candor about nature, mortality, baseball and the distant past, died at age 89. (Jim Cole/AP)
Poet Donald Hall died this week at 89, near Wilmot, New Hampshire, where he lived on his family's farm.
Here & Now's Robin Young remembers Hall's life and poetry, and revisits a 2006 interview with Hall after he'd been appointed U.S. poet laureate.
