{"id":4472,"date":"2014-03-11T13:25:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2023-10-29T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T14:12:03","slug":"poet-donald-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/poet-donald-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Donald Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Please note:\u00a0 All images on\u00a0 this site are copyrighted.\u00a0 \u00a0If you wish to discuss licensing, please email me at &#x6d;&#x61;&#x75;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x79;&#x40;&#x6d;&#x61;&#x75;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x79;&#x6d;&#x69;&#x74;&#x63;&#x68;&#x65;&#x6c;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#99;&#111;&#109;<\/h2>\n<p>Last week I was fortunate to photograph poet Donald Hall in his 200-year-old farmhouse, Eagle Pond Farm, in Wilmot, New Hampshire. The 85-year-old former U.S. Poet Laureate still writes every day. In December, he will publish another book, Essays After Eighty.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-03-11_0002.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0002.jpg\" alt=\"2014-03-11_0002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhile I was there, FedEx delivered a box of books, a Spanish translation of his book Without. He signed one for me, while taking a few seconds to pet his cat, Louise.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4487\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0011.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Hall Fedex and Cat\" width=\"2048\" height=\"947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0011.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0011-120x55.jpg 120w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0011-720x332.jpg 720w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0011-1024x473.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Louise, and the Medal of Arts, which President Obama presented to Hall in a White House ceremony in March of 2011. (You can view the ceremony here.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-03-11_0005.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0005.jpg\" alt=\"2014-03-11_0005.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-03-11_0006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0006.jpg\" alt=\"2014-03-11_0006.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-03-11_0004.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0004.jpg\" alt=\"2014-03-11_0004.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-03-11_0008.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-11_0008.jpg\" alt=\"2014-03-11_0008.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4482\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Donald-Hall-BW-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Hall black &amp; white portrait\" width=\"2048\" height=\"3069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Donald-Hall-BW-logo.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Donald-Hall-BW-logo-80x120.jpg 80w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Donald-Hall-BW-logo-480x720.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Donald-Hall-BW-logo-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note:\u00a0 All images on\u00a0 this site are copyrighted.\u00a0 \u00a0If you wish to discuss licensing, please email me at &#x6d;&#x61;&#x75;&#110;dy&#64;&#x6d;&#x61;&#x75;&#x6e;&#100;ymi&#x74;&#x63;&#x68;&#101;&#108;l.c&#x6f;&#x6d; Last week I was fortunate to photograph poet Donald Hall in his 200-year-old farmhouse, Eagle Pond Farm, in Wilmot, New Hampshire. The 85-year-old former U.S. Poet Laureate still writes every day. In December, he will<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/poet-donald-hall\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portraits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19092,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions\/19092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}