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  2. Howard Nemerov - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. United States Poet Laureate - Wikipedia

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    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. The position was modeled on ...

  4. The Best American Poetry 1990 - Wikipedia

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    The Best American Poetry 1990 book cover. The Best American Poetry 1990, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Jorie Graham. The book contains seventy-five poems with a range of poet-authors from a college freshman to the 1990 United States Poet Laureate. David Lehman publicly commented that ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. First she was named U.S. Poet Laureate. Now, Lexington ... - AOL

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  8. 1990 in poetry - Wikipedia

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    Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day.; Jason Shinder, an American poet, expands a New York City Y.M.C.A. writing education program nationwide, thereby founding the Y.M.C.A. National Writer's Voice program, one of the country's largest networks of literary-arts centers, with 24 locations by 2008.

  9. The next US poet laureate has KY roots. What to know about ...

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    The position of U.S. poet laureate has been historically vague. Here’s what the poet is actually required to do, the office’s history and who has served in the role. ... 800-290-4726 more ways ...