American poet laureate Donald Hall’s new title, awarded by the Librarian of Congress on June 14, carries few official duties and only lasts one year (with the possibility of reappointment), but Hall hopes to use his new platform as “a pulpit,” he told the New York Times. “If I see First Amendment violations,” he said, “I will speak up.”
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