[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 436 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 436

Congratulating Donald Andrew Hall for his selection by the Librarian of 
  Congress as the 14th Poet Laureate of the United States and for his 
great accomplishments in prose and essays focusing on New England rural 
    living, baseball, and how work conveys meaning to ordinary life.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 2006

 Mr. Bass (for himself and Mr. Bradley of New Hampshire) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          House Administration

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Congratulating Donald Andrew Hall for his selection by the Librarian of 
  Congress as the 14th Poet Laureate of the United States and for his 
great accomplishments in prose and essays focusing on New England rural 
    living, baseball, and how work conveys meaning to ordinary life.

Whereas Donald Hall attended the prestigious Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at 
        the age of 16 on account of his prose and short story writing;
Whereas Donald Hall served as literary editor of the Oxford Poetry Society's 
        ``Isis'' and won Oxford University's prestigious Newdigate Prize for 
        ``Exile'';
Whereas Donald Hall served as the poetry editor of ``The Paris Review'';
Whereas Donald Hall has held Stanford's Creative Writing Fellowship, a position 
        in Harvard's Society of Fellows, and a faculty position at Harvard for 
        18 years;
Whereas Donald Hall held the position of New Hampshire Poet Laureate from 1984 
        to 1989;
Whereas Donald Hall has published fifteen books of poetry including ``The One 
        Bad'' (1988), ``The Happy Man'' (1986), and ``Exiles and Marriages'' 
        (1955);
Whereas Donald Hall has also written twenty books of prose, children's books, 
        and plays;
Whereas Donald Hall's most recent work is ``White Apples and the Taste of Stone: 
        Selected Poems 1946-2006'';
Whereas Donald Hall has received numerous awards including two Guggenheim 
        Fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver Medal, 
        a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Hampshire Writers and 
        Publisher Project, the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry, the National Book 
        Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Lenore 
        Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection;
Whereas Donald Hall has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize;
Whereas Donald Hall has won a Caldecott Medal for his children's book ``The Ox-
        Cart Man'';
Whereas Donald Hall is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters; and
Whereas recurring themes in Donald Hall's writings include New England rural 
        life, baseball, and ordinary life: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),  
That Congress congratulates Donald Andrew Hall for his selection by the 
Librarian of Congress as the 14th Poet Laureate of the United States 
and for his great accomplishments in prose and essays focusing on New 
England rural living, baseball, and how work conveys meaning to 
ordinary life.
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