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The Library of congress has named, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic as the new U.S. poet laureate. Simic was given the place of Donald Hall, another poet. The laureate program aims to promote poetry all across the nation. Simic who immigrated to America from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in his youth started writing in the early 1970s as a literary minimalist. He wrote terse, imagistic poems etc. Today, he is an essayist, translator, editor and also a professor emeritus of creative writing and literature. He is married to fashion designer; Helen Dubin and has two children. Critics have often described his poems as ‘tightly constructed Chinese puzzle boxes.’ Marilyn Hoskin, dean of the college of liberal arts at UNH, regarding Simic’s work said, When you read it, you feel like he’s talking to you. Whatever the subject matter – a cat walking at midnight or a view from Serbo-Croatia – someone is there telling you something beautifully phrased. Simic is also co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1990 for his book of prose poems, The World Doesn’t End and is the 2007 recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. He had also won-the Edgar Allen Poe Award, the PEN Translation Prize and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. About this honor he said, ‘I am especially touched and honored to be selected because I am an immigrant boy who didn’t speak English until I was 15.’ His books- � What the Grass Says – 1967 � Somewhere Among Us A Stone Is Taking Notes – 1969 � Dismantling The Silence – 1971 � White – 1972 � Return To A Place Lit By A Glass Of Milk – 1974 � Charon’s Cosmology – 1977 � School For Dark Thoughts – 1978 � Classic Ballroom Dances – 1980 � Austerities – 1982 � Unending Blues – 1986 � The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems – 1990 � Hotel Insomnia – 1992 � Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell – 1993 � A Wedding in Hell – 1994 � Walking the Black Cat – 1996 � Jackstraws – 1999 � The Book of Gods and Devils – 2000 � Night Picnic: Poems – 2001 � The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems – 2003 � Selected Poems: 1963-2003 – 2004 � My Noiseless Entourage : Poems – 2005 � Monkey Around – 2006 Source: USAtoday/ Wikipedia