Poets Laureate (US)

(Poets who have held the library of Congress Poetry Position)
 
Laureateship
Poet
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
   
  See Poet Laureate in Glossary
 

 


 

 

 
 
 
 

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