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The position was modeled on the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Begun in 1937, and formerly known as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the present title was devised and authorized by an Act of Congress in 1985. Appointed by the Librarian of Congress, the poet laureate's office is administered by the Center for the Book ...
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.
Current events; Random article; ... informally known as United States Poets Laureate. ... Pages in category "American Poets Laureate"
Current events; Random article; ... The following is a List of authors by name whose last names begin with A: ... (born 1946, US, p), birth name Brad Burdick; Sorin ...
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
List of Man'yōshū poets; List of Marinist poets; Medieval Arabic female poets; Poet Laureate of Michigan; Poet Laureate of Missouri; List of modernist writers; List of modernist poets; List of poets from Mumbai; List of municipal poets laureate in California; List of municipal poets laureate in Massachusetts; List of municipal poets laureate ...
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]
Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) [1] is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. [2] In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow [3] and she won the Pulitzer Prize. [4]