[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 28, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6724-S6725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 107--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

  Mr. GREGG (for himself and Mr. Sununu) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary:
       Whereas Donald Hall attended the prestigious Bread Loaf 
     Writers' Conference at age of 16 on account of his prose and 
     short story writing;
       Whereas Donald Hall served as literary editor of Isis, the 
     Oxford Poetry Society's journal, 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

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     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 15 books of poetry, 
     including ``The One Bad'' (1988), ``The Happy Man'' (1986), 
     and ``Exiles and Marriages'' (1955);
       Whereas Donald Hall has also written 20 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 
     2 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 Senate (the House of Representatives 
     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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