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Donald Hall


Donald Hall is an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard and Oxford, Hall is the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse. Regarded as a "plainspoken, rural poet," Hall's work "explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet's abiding reverence for nature."

Michael calls up the former US Poet Laureate to chat about poetry, sex, cheerleaders, aging and so much more!