IV 
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. 
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 
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 ordi-
nary 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 pres-
tigious Newdigate Prize for ‘‘Exile’’; 
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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 includ-
ing two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Poetry Society of 
America’s Robert Frost Silver Medal, a Lifetime Achieve-
ment Award from the New Hampshire Writers and Pub-
lisher Project, the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry, the Na-
tional 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 chil-
dren’s book ‘‘The Ox-Cart Man’’; 
Whereas Donald Hall is a member of the Academy of Arts 
and Letters; and 
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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. 
Æ 
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