Donald Hall
Poetry and Ox-Cart Man

|Biography and Background| |Ox-Cart Man| |Poetry|

Biography and Background

Donald Hall
Biography.

An Interview with Donald Hall
Hall discusses literatue in general and influences on his own writing.

Online Resources
A list of links from the Library of Congress, including Webcasts and interviews.

Ox-Cart Man

Drafts of Ox-Cart Man
Students can explore the writing process by looking at the 19 drafts and 3 published versions of Ox-Cart Man.

Self-Sufficiency and the Community
This lesson uses Ox-Cart Man to help students understand self-sufficiency, colonial life, and modern communities.

You have to give up something!
Students explore the concept of "opportunity cost" in this activity.

Poetry

Audio Interview with Donald Hall
Hall discusses his writing and his life. He also reads his poems "To a Waterfowl" and "Mount Kearsarge."

Donald Hall
Biographical information and links to "Affirmation" and "Gold." Click on the link to hear the poet reading "Gold."

Donald Hall
From the series "The Poet and the Poem," interview and poetry reading. Time: 57:58.

Donald Hall
Links to 14 poems.

Life at Eagle Pond: The Poetry of Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall
Follow the links to 6 poems.