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A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) [1] [2] [3] is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age ...
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s.
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate, serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry.
"Open letter" to the Dutch, World War II poster. Joseph Auslander (October 11, 1897 – June 22, 1965) was an American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist. Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1937 and 1941.
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem The Cantos (c. 1917 ...
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. [1] For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry, [2] Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, [3] and Bollingen Prize.
In 1994, Inada's Legends from Camp won an American Book Award, and he has received several poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. [6] He also won the 1997 Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. In 2006 Inada was named Oregon's fifth poet laureate, the first person to fill the position since William Stafford in 1990.
Samuel James Cornish (December 22, 1935 - August 20, 2018) was Boston’s first poet laureate. He was associated with the Black Arts Movement. He taught at Emerson College. Cornish was an educator, a bookseller, and a prolific poet who made sense of African American history and urban life through his poetry.