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The position of Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the Virginia General Assembly. [1]Originally, the Poet Laureate of Virginia was appointed without outside consultation by the General Assembly, usually for one year, in a process that has been described being "more of a political thing".
Guy Carleton Drewry (May 21, 1901 - August 3, 1991) was an American writer and poet. He served a life appointment as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1970 to 1991. His novels include The Writhen Wood, Cloud Above Clocktime, and To Love that Well.
Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia [2] from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville , where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds ...
Category: Poets Laureate of Virginia. 1 language. ... Pages in category "Poets Laureate of Virginia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda [1] (born 1946) was named Poet Laureate of Virginia [2] by the Governor, Tim Kaine, on June 26, 2006.She succeeded Rita Dove and served in this position from June 2006 – July 2008.
Claudia Emerson (January 13, 1957 – December 4, 2014) [1] was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife, [2] [3] and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008. [4]
Kelly Cherry (December 21, 1940 – March 18, 2022) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, professor, and literary critic [1] and a former Poet Laureate of Virginia (2010–2012). [2] She was the author of more than 30 books, including the poetry collections Songs for a Soviet Composer , Death and Transfiguration , Rising Venus and The ...
George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist. [1] He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia [2] from 2002 to 2004. [3] His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun.