Portal:United States Poets Laureate
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This index lists people who have held the post of United State Poet Laureate.
"Formerly known as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the nation's official poet. During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry. "
Consultants in Poetry[edit]
- 1937–1941: Joseph Auslander
- 1943–1944: Allen Tate
- 1944–1945: Robert Penn Warren
- 1945–1946: Louise Bogan
- 1946–1947: Karl Shapiro
- 1947–1948: Robert Lowell
- 1948–1949: Léonie Adams
- 1949–1950: Elizabeth Bishop
- 1950–1952: Conrad Aiken
- 1952: William Carlos Williams
- 1956–1958: Randall Jarrell
- 1958–1959: Robert Frost
- 1959–1961: Richard Eberhart
- 1961–1963: Louis Untermeyer
- 1963–1964: Howard Nemerov
- 1964–1965: Reed Whittemore
- 1965–1966: Stephen Spender
- 1966–1968: James Dickey
- 1968–1970: William Jay Smith
- 1970–1971: William Stafford
- 1971–1973: Josephine Jacobsen
- 1973–1974: Daniel Hoffman
- 1974–1976: Stanley Kunitz
- 1976–1978: Robert Hayden
- 1978–1980: William Morris Meredith
- 1981–1982: Maxine Kumin
- 1982–1984: Anthony Hecht
- 1984–1985: Reed Whittemore (interim)
- 1984–1985: Robert Fitzgerald
- 1985–1986: Gwendolyn Brooks
Poet Laureate Consultants in Poetry[edit]
- 1986–1987: Robert Penn Warren
- 1987–1988: Richard Wilbur
- 1988–1990: Howard Nemerov
- 1990–1991: Mark Strand
- 1991–1992: Joseph Brodsky
- 1992–1993: Mona Van Duyn
- 1993–1995: Rita Dove
- 1995–1997: Robert Hass
- 1997–2000: Robert Pinsky
- 2000–2001: Stanley Kunitz
- 2001–2003: Billy Collins
- 2003–2004: Louise Glück
- 2004–2006: Ted Kooser
- 2006–2007: Donald Hall
- 2007–2008: Charles Simic
- 2008–2010: Kay Ryan
- 2010–2011: W.S. Merwin
- 2011–2012: Philip Levine
- 2012–2014: Natasha Trethewey
- 2014–2015: Charles Wright
- 2015–2017: Juan Felipe Herrera
- 2017–present: Tracy K. Smith