US Poets Laureate
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This page holds a listing of current US Poets Laureate at the national and state level. If you know of one I don't have listed here, please let me know and include a link to somewhere that I can verify the information. For reference, I'm looking for Poets Laureate appointed by a government body - in this case National or State - not contest winners or corporate sponsored events or anything along those lines. Duly appointed Poets Laureate only please.
| Name | Date Appointed | Term (years) | Ordinal | |
| United States | Billy Collins | 2002 | 1 |
| State | Name | Date Appointed | Term | Ordinal |
| Alabama | Helen Norris | 1999 | 4 | |
| Alaska | ||||
| Arizona | ||||
| Arkansas | Verna Lee Hinegardner | |||
| California | ||||
| Colorado | Mary Crow | |||
| Conneticut | Marilyn Nelson | 28-Jun-01 | 5 | |
| Delware | Dr. Fleda Brown | Oct-01 | ||
| Florida | Dr. Edmund Skellings | 1980 | no term | |
| Georgia | David Bottoms | |||
| Hawaii | ||||
| Idaho | ||||
| Illinois | Gwendolyn Brooks | |||
| Iowa | Marvin Bell | 2001 | 2 | |
| Kansas | ||||
| Kentucky | Joe Survant | 09-Jan-03 | 2 | |
| Louisiana | ||||
| Maine | Baron Wormser | 2000 | 3 | 2 |
| Maryland | Michael Collier | 2001 | ||
| Massachusetts | ||||
| Michigan | ||||
| Minnesota | ||||
| Mississippi | ||||
| Missouri | ||||
| Montana | ||||
| Nebraska | ||||
| Nevada | ||||
| New Hampshire | Marie Harris | 1999 | 5 | |
| New Jersey | Amiri Baraka | |||
| New Mexico | ||||
| New York | ||||
| North Carolina | ||||
| North Dakota | ||||
| Ohio | ||||
| Oklahoma | ||||
| Oregon | ||||
| Pennsylvania | ||||
| Rhode Island | ||||
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| Tennessee | ||||
| Texas | none current | |||
| Utah | ||||
| Vermont | ||||
| Virginia | ||||
| Washington | ||||
| Washington, D.C. | Dolores Kendrick | 14-May-99 | no term | 2 |
| Wet Virginia | ||||
| Wisconsin | ||||
| Wyoming |
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