Felstiner, John. “’Kicking the Leaves’: Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at Eagle Pond Farm.” Iowa Review 37, no. 1 (Spring, 2007): 54-64. This essay looks at themes of love and death in the works of Kenyon and Hall. It compares and contrasts the poetry written during their marriage.

Hall, Donald. The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. The poet Hall looks back at his life with Kenyon, alternating chapters on her death and funeral with memories of their life together. This provides profound insights into Kenyon’s thoughts, creative processes, and the raw material of her poetry, as well as being a moving memoir about love, friendship, and death.

_______. Without. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Hall began writing Without early in his wife’s illness. It describes Kenyon’s bone marrow transplant and radiation treatment and continues after her death with a series of epistles from Hall to Kenyon. Hall writes with exceptional clarity and directness; several reviewers have referred to this book as a true expression of “raw grief.”

Hornback, Bert G., ed.“Bright, Unequivocal Eye”: Poems, Papers, and Remembrances from the First Jane Kenyon Conference. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. This volume collects poems and remarks made at an April, 1998, conference about Kenyon and her work by Hall, Wendell Berry, Galway Kinnell, Alice Mattison, Gregory Orr, and Joyce Peseroff. It also includes essays by a dozen other participants from the conference.

“Jane Kenyon Portfolio.” Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia 4 (1999). Contains a Kenyon essay later included in A Hundred White Daffodils, a poem by and interview with Hall, poet Gregory Orr’s remarks about Kenyon at the 1998 conference, and a poem by Orr for Kenyon.

Mattison, Alice. “’Let It Grow in the Dark Like a Mushroom’: Writing with Jane Kenyon.” Michigan Quarterly Review 39, no. 1 (Winter, 2000): 120. Mattison recounts her years in a workshop with Kenyon. Correspondence between the two is included.

Taylor, Keith. “The Presence of Jane Kenyon.” Review of Collected Poems. Michigan Quarterly Review 45, no. 4 (Fall, 2006): 702-712. Reviews the Collected Poems and other books by and about Kenyon.

Timmerman, John H. Jane Kenyon: A Literary Life. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2002. Timmerman examines the multiple drafts that Kenyon wrote in the process of reaching a finished poem and studies how she refined ideas, images, and language. He also uses notes, journals, letters, and Hall’s recollections to study Kenyon’s biography and personal life, assessing how they affected her poetry.