Wesley McNair’s Humble Poetry of Passing Things

In 1975, Wesley McNair was teaching English at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., ten miles from his farmhouse in North Sutton. He’d managed to escape, in his telling, a “crushing workload as a high-school teacher and make more room for poetry.” McNair learned that the poet Donald Hall had quit his tenured position at the University of Michigan and moved into Eagle Pond Farm, Hall’s family farm in nearby Wilmot, N.H.