• Newdigate Prize, for Exile, 1952
• Lamont Poetry Prize, for Exiles and Marriages, 1955
• Edna St. Vincent Millay Award, 1956
• Caldecott Medal, for Ox-Cart Man, 1980
• Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, 1984–1989
• Sarah Josepha Hale Award, 1983
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, for The Happy Man, 1987
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, for The One Day, 1988
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry, for The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts, 1989
• Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, for his lifetime achievement, 1991
• Honorary Doctor of Letters from Bates College, 1991
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, for his lifetime achievement, 1994
• L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, for Without: Poems, 1999
• U.S. Poet Laureate, 2006–2007
• National Medal of Arts, for his lifetime achievement, 2010

Selected online reviews of Donald Hall's poetry and prose appear below.

Poetry Reviews

The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (2015)

The Back Chamber (2011)

White Apples and the Taste of Stone (2006)

The Painted Bed (2002)

Without (1998)

The Museum of Clear Ideas (1993)

Old and New Poems (1990)

The One Day (1988)

Prose Reviews

A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety (2018)

Eagle Pond (2007)

The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon (2005)

Willow Temple: New and Selected Stories (2003)

Principal Products of Portugal: Prose Pieces (1995)

Life Work (1993)

Here at Eagle Pond: Essays (1990)

Seasons at Eagle Pond (1987)

The Ideal Bakery: Stories (1987)