Hall To Be Named US Poet Laureate

The Librarian of Congress will name Donald Hall as the US’ 14th Poet Laureate. “Mr. Hall, a poet in the distinctive American tradition of Robert Frost, has also been a harsh critic of the religious right’s influence on government arts policy. And as a member of the advisory council of the National Endowment for the Arts during the administration of George H. W. Bush, he referred to those he thought were interfering with arts grants as bullies and art bashers.”