Poets Laureate (US)
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(Poets who have held the library of Congress Poetry Position)
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Laureateship
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Poet
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1937-1941 |
Joseph Auslander (had no fixed term) |
1943-1944 |
Allen Tate |
1944-1945 |
Robert Penn Warren |
1945-1946 |
Louise Bogan |
1946-1947 |
Karl Shapiro |
1947-1948 |
Robert Lowell |
1948-1949 |
Leonie Adams |
1949-1950 |
Elizabeth Bishop |
1950-1952 |
Conrad Aiken (first to serve 2 terms) |
1952 |
William Carlos Williams (appointed but did not serve) |
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 Meredith |
1981-1982 |
Maxine Kumin |
1982-1984 |
Anthony Hecht |
1984-1985 |
Robert Fitzgerald (served in a limited capacity due
to ill-health) |
1984-1985 |
Reed Whittemore (Interim Consultant in Poetry) |
1985-1986 |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
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 (First to serve 3 consecutive
terms) |
1999-2000 |
Rita Dove, Loiuse Glück and W.S. Merwin
(Special Bicentennial Consultants) |
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- |
Juan Felipe Herrera |
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