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  2. United States Poet Laureate - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the poet laureate receives a $60,000 annual stipend, endowed by a gift from Archer M. Huntington. [1] On October 3, 1985, the U.S. Congress passed legislation authored by Senator Spark M. Matsunaga of Hawaii changing the title of the position to Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. [3]

  3. List of U.S. states' poets laureate - Wikipedia

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    The current poet laureate of Alabama is Ashley M. Jones. Alabama has had an official poet laureate since 1930. The Alabama Writer's Cooperative (formerly the Alabama Writers' Conclave), described as "a voluntary organization of Alabama historians, playwrights, fiction writers, poets, and newspaper writers" first recommended in 1930 Samuel Minturn Peck to Governor Bibb Graves.

  4. Ada Limón - Wikipedia

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    Ada Limón (born March 28, 1976) is an American poet. [1] On July 12, 2022, she was named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States by the Librarian of Congress. [2] [3] [4] This made her the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States. [5] She is married to Lucas Marquardt. [6]

  5. Oklahoma, Native American poet Joy Harjo receives National ...

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    Who is National Humanities Medalist Joy Harjo? A Tulsa native and Muscogee Nation citizen, Harjo in 2019 became the first Oklahoman and first Native American to be named the U.S. Poet Laureate.The ...

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  7. Category:American Poets Laureate - Wikipedia

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    Individuals listed here include state and local poets laureate in addition to Poet Laureate Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress, informally known as United States Poets Laureate. Contents

  8. U.S. Poet Laureate verses are soaring into space — literally

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    U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón has revealed her latest poem that will be engraved aboard a NASA spacecraft that will travel billions of miles in space.

  9. Donald Hall - Wikipedia

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    On June 14, 2006, Hall was appointed as the Library of Congress's 14th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (commonly known as "Poet Laureate of the United States"). [3] He is regarded as a "plainspoken, rural poet," and it has been said that, in his work, he "explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects [an] abiding reverence for ...