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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 ...
In May 1993 she was named United States Poet Laureate [7] by the Librarian of Congress, an office she held until 1995. At the age of 40, Dove was the youngest person in the position and the first African American since the title was changed to Poet Laureate ( Robert Hayden had served as the first non-white Consultant in Poetry from 1976 to 1978 ...
The terms can vary in length from state to state. Most states appoint a poet laureate for a one- or two-year term, fewer to several years, and some states appoint a poet to a lifetime tenure. Two states, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, previously had such posts but abolished them in 2003. [1] [2] Michigan had a single poet laureate from 1952 to ...
1985, selected as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, an honorary one-year term, known as the Poet Laureate of the United States [2] 1988, inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame [32] 1989, awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement by the Poetry Society of America [33]
In July 2008, the U.S. Library of Congress announced that Ryan would be the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate for a one-year term commencing in Autumn 2008. She succeeded Charles Simic. [2] In April 2009, the Library announced that Ryan would serve a second one-year term extending through May 2010. [14] She was succeeded by W.S. Merwin in ...
Kayden Hern, 9, spoke as poet laureate at the inauguration of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on New Year’s Day. He performed a piece he wrote titled, “In My Mind.” Kayden said his next poem is ...
Ada Limón, who recently began her second term as the country's poet laureate, said she first missed a call the day after her grandmother, Allamay Barker, had died at the age of 98.
Poets Laureate of the United States include Ada Limón, Joy Harjo, Tracy K. Smith and Juan Felipe Herrera. Amanda Gorman was the United States's first National Youth Poet Laureate appointed in 2017. [367] A number of American state legislatures have also created an office of poet laureate. The holders may be locally or nationally prominent.