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Donald Hall, a writer of reviews, criticism, textbooks, sports journalism, memoirs, biographies, plays, and children's stories in addition to the poetry for which he has long been revered, is Whitworth's 2006 Simpson-Duvall Lecturer. Hall, who spoke to a rapt audience in Weyerhaeuser Hall this spring, is the former poet laureate of New Hampshire and has won the Lamont Poetry Prize, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Award, two Guggenheim fellowships and the Robert Frost Medal. He has been nominated for the National Book Award on three separate occasions. The New York Times Book Review says of Hall's most recent collection, Without: Poems, "His extraordinarily clear awareness of what is over and gone is more present and more appealing in words now than it could have found room to be in life.... It is as if [these] were not poems at all but experiences undergone with and by another human being."
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