Visiting Voices: Donald Hall
Poetry in Motion
By Todd Copeland
Former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall was one of four featured
poets at the fifteenth-annual Beall Poetry Festival, held March 26-28.
His most recent book of poetry is White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946–2006, published by Houghton Mifflin. He is also the author of the popular children’s book Ox-Cart Man, a Caldecott Medal winner.
"Ever since I was fourteen, all I have wanted to do is to write
poems," he said. "I like to write every day, but I don’t like to write
so much as I like to revise--changing a word, changing line breaks. I
had one poem that went through 158 drafts. I resent poets who can write
a poem in one draft."
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