Arts
We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast to bring you a new reading and conversation with Donald Hall who has been named Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress. Donald Hall's first book with Houghton Mifflin was Seasons at Eagle Pond (1987). Hall has won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the LA Times Book Award for The One Day (1989) and a PEN-Winship Award for Without (1998). He was the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1984-89 and again in 1995-99. In 1991, he was the recipient of the Robert Frost Silver Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Earlier this year, Houghton Mifflin published White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006, a volume of his essential life's work.