Donald Hall, Poet Laureate Who Illuminated Rural Life, Dies at 89

FILE — Poet Donald Hall at his home in Wilmot, N.H., June 13, 2006. Hall, a former poet laureate of the United States who found a universe of meaning in the apples, ox carts and ordinary folk of his beloved rural New England, died on June 23, 2018, at the age of 89. (Bob LaPree/The New York Times)