we're to get a new poet laureate

(who by the way was born in connecticut and lives in new hampshire)

Hall to be named US poet laureate
By Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press June 14, 2006
WASHINGTON -- New Hampshire poet Donald Hall, who has chronicled life's sorrows and celebrations in verse across seven decades, will be the next poet laureate of the United States.
His 15th book of poetry, this spring's ``White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006," prompted The Washington Post to praise Hall as a rural poet in the Robert Frost tradition and note ``the delightful variety of his work and the sheer charm of his voice."
Hall's first book of poetry, ``Exiles and Marriages," appeared in 1955. The widower of poet Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995, he published a memoir of their marriage, ``The Best Day the Worst Day," last year. Many of his poems commemorate death and loss in the plainspoken style he employs.
``Donald Hall is one of America's most distinctive and respected literary figures," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in an announcement prepared for delivery today. ``For more than 50 years, he has written beautiful poetry on a wide variety of subjects that are often distinctly American and conveyed with passion."...


White Apples

when my father had been dead a week
I woke
with his voice in my ear I sat up in bed
and held my breath
and stared at the pale closed door
white apples and the taste of stone
if he called again
I would put on my coat and galoshes

Donald Hall