Donald Hall is the nation’s new poet laureate, replacing Ted Kooser. Hall,
The New York Times describes him as “a poet in the distinctive American tradition of Robert Frost” who has “been a harsh critic of the religious right’s influence on government arts policy.”
Congratulations.
(Photo is from Hall’s page at the American Academy of Poets Web site and was taken by Hugh Chatfield.)
The South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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