{"id":14171,"date":"2020-09-11T16:06:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=14171"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:15:31","slug":"mcnair-remembers-hall-and-kenyon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-remembers-hall-and-kenyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Poets of Place: Wesley McNair Remembers Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14194\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14194\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2020\/09\/Wes-and-background-fairly-balanced-942x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2020\/09\/Wes-and-background-fairly-balanced-942x1024.jpg 942w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2020\/09\/Wes-and-background-fairly-balanced-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2020\/09\/Wes-and-background-fairly-balanced-768x834.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2020\/09\/Wes-and-background-fairly-balanced.jpg 1977w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wes McNair in front of our Hall-Kenyon exhibit in the Robinson Room, in May 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On April 4, 2019, in a scholarly talk given in the Robinson Room of Colby&#8217;s Special Collections &amp; Archives, Wes McNair offered a recollection of his literary friendship with poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon, which began in the middle 1970\u2019s, when he lived ten miles away from their home at Eagle Pond Farm in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Interspersing his account with poems and personal anecdotes, McNair showed how he and his NH neighbors developed as poets of place, all drawing on details from the same patch of ground to create New England visions that were both different and distinctive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The talk was audio recorded the next month for use on this site, with the content divided into three sequential sections.&nbsp; A full transcript is available <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2021\/11\/Three-Poets-of-Place-full-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. 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