Midweek breaking Line: The announcement of Mr. [Donald] Hall's

appointment is to be made by James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress. Mr. Billington said that he chose Mr. Hall because of "the sustained quality of his poetry, the reach and variety of things he talks about."

from The New York Times: Outspoken New Englander Is New Poet Laureate

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If he attended poetry readings in 1989 with unblinkered eyes, he would watch twenty-year-olds undergoing quasi-religious emotions--one of whom, almost certainly, will write an essay in the 2020s telling the world that poetry is moldering in its grave.

Worship is not love. People who at the age of fifty deplore the death of poetry are the same people who in their twenties were "taught to exalt it."

from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Death to the death of poetry --Donald Hall

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