Laureate, succeeding Ted Kooser. He served from October 1, 2006, and was succeeded by Charles Simic the following year. At the time of his appointment, Hall was profiled in episode of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer which aired on October 16, 2006. Hall was awarded the 2010 National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. Hall's penultimate work is a 2018 recording of an eleven-song cycle on the topic of mortality, entitled "Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss After 60." The poems are by Hall and are read by the author, the music is by Grammy Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein. His last book A Carnival of Losses: Essays Nearing Ninety was published on July 10, 2018. Film Donald Hall was the subject of a short documentary by Paul Szynol called Quiet Hours. He also appeared in Ken Burns's 1994 documentary on baseball. Personal life Hall lived at Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire, a small town in Merrimack County. He was married to poet and author Jane Kenyon (1947–1995) for 23 years and lived with her until her death. Hall died on June 23, 2018, at the age of 89 at his home in Wilmot. Selected awards and honors 1952: Newdigate Prize 1955: Lamont Poetry Prize, for Exiles and Marriages 1956: Edna St. Vincent Millay Award 1956: Nomination for the National Book Award 1963–1964: Guggenheim Fellowship 1972–1973: Guggenheim Fellowship 1979: Nomination for the National Book Award 1984–1989: Poet Laureate of New Hampshire 1983: Sarah Josepha Hale Award 1986: Horn Book Honour List 1987: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 1988: National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 1989: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry 1990: Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America 1991: Honorary Doctor of Letters (in honoris causa) from Bates College. 1993: Nomination for the National Book Award 1994: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement. 1999: L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Without: Poems 2006–2007: Fourteenth U.S. Poet Laureate 2010: National Medal of Arts Bibliography Poetry 1952: Exile 1952: Fantasy Poets Number Four 1955: Exiles and Marriages 1957: New Poets of England and America 1958: The Dark Houses 1964: A Roof of Tiger Lilies 1969: The Alligator Bride 1971: The Yellow Room: Love Poems 1975: The Town of Hill 1975: A Blue Wing Tilts at the Edge of the Sea: Selected Poems, 1964–1974 1978: Kicking the Leaves 1979: The Toy Bone 1981: