These poets will be the Poet Laureates of the United States. There have been 43 to date. The actual title is Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Since 1937 many of my favorite American poets have been appointed this honor, and many poets that I am not as familiar with have also held this post.
Enjoy, and perhaps you may find a new favorite American poet.
- 1937–1941 Joseph Auslander
- 1943–1944 Allen Tate
- 1944–1945, 1986-1987 Robert Penn Warren (first called PL Consultant in Poetry to the LofC)
- 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 two terms, 2 years)
- 1956–1958 Randall Jarrell
- 1958–1959 Robert Frost
- 1959–1961 Richard Eberhart
- 1961–1963 Louis Untermeyer
- 1963–1964 Howard Nemerov
- 1964–1965, 1984–1985 Reed Whittemore
- 1965–1966 Stephen Spender
- 1968–1970 William Jay Smith
- 1966–1968 James Dickey
- 1970–1971 William Stafford
- 1971–1973 Josephine Jacobsen
- 1973–1974 Daniel Hoffman
- 1974–1976, 2000-2001 Stanley Kunitz
- 1976–1978 Robert Hayden
- 1978–1980 William Meredith
- 1981–1982 Maxine Kumin
- 1982–1984 Anthony Hecht
- 1984–1985 Robert Fitzgerald (appointed and served in a health-limited capacity)
- 1985–1986 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 1987–1988 Richard Wilbur
- 1988–1990 Howard Nemerov
- 1990–1991 Mark Strand
- 1991–1992 Joseph Brodsky
- 1992–1993 Mona Van Duyn
- 1993–1995, 1999-2000 Rita Dove (joint Special Bicentennial Consultant 1999-2000)
- 1995–1997 Robert Hass
- 1997–2000 Robert Pinsky
- 1999–2000 W.S. Merwin (joint Special Bicentennial Consultant)
- 2001–2003 Billy Collins
- 2003–2004, 1999-2000 Louise Glück (joint Special Bicentennial Consultant 1999-2000)
- 2004–2006 Ted Kooser
- 2006–2007 Donald Hall
- 2007–2008 Charles Simic
- 2008–2009 Kay Ryan
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