- Playing
- Her Garden by Donald Hall
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- Curtis Fox
Host Intro:
This is Poetry Off the Shelf from The Poetry Foundation. The Poet Donald Hall has written many poems for his wife Jane Kenyon, who was also a poet. Kenyon died in 1995. In this poem, Her Garden, Hall ties his mourning to the physical growth of his wife's garden
Host Outro:
That was the poet Donald Hall reading his poem Her Garden. The piece was produced by PoetryFoundation.org. You can find out more about Donald Hall, and read some of his poems, at the website PoetryFoundation.org.
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Piece Description
Host Intro: This is Poetry Off the Shelf from The Poetry Foundation. The Poet Donald Hall has written many poems for his wife Jane Kenyon, who was also a poet. Kenyon died in 1995. In this poem, Her Garden, Hall ties his mourning to the physical growth of his wife's garden Host Outro: That was the poet Donald Hall reading his poem Her Garden. The piece was produced by PoetryFoundation.org. You can find out more about Donald Hall, and read some of his poems, at the website PoetryFoundation.org.




