Compiled by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist
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Billy Collins,
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003
Related Resources
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The Library's Digital Reference Section is in the process of creating Web guides to online resources for each U.S. Poet Laureate (1986-present) and Consultant in Poetry (1937-1985) to the Library of Congress. Each guide will link to Library of Congress Web pages that include information on the poet laureate's life and work, as well as to external Web sites that feature biographical information, interviews, poems, audio, video, and other materials that highlight the activities of each poet. Guides currently available are linked below; new guides will be added upon completion.
For information about the positions of Consultant in Poetry and Poet Laureate, see the frequently asked questions Web page.
Poet Laureate Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1986-present)
Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1937-1985)
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1985-1986)
- Reed Whittemore (Interim Consultant in Poetry, 1984-1985)
- Robert Fitzgerald (1984-1985)
- Anthony Hecht (1982-1984)
- Maxine Kumin (1980-1982)
- William Meredith (1978-1980)
- Robert Hayden (1976-1978)
- Stanley Kunitz (1974-1976)
- Daniel Hoffman (1973-1974)
- Josephine Jacobsen (1971-1973)
- William Stafford (1970-1971)
- William Jay Smith (1968-1970)
- James Dickey (1966-1968)
- Stephen Spender (1965-1966)
- Reed Whittemore (1964-1965)
- Howard Nemerov (1963-1964)
- Louis Untermeyer (1961-1963)
- Richard Eberhart (1959-1961)
- Robert Frost (1958-1959)
- Randall Jarrell (1956-1958)
- William Carlos Williams (appointed in 1952 but did not serve)
- Conrad Aiken (1950-1952)
- Elizabeth Bishop (1949-1950)
- Leonie Adams (1948-1949)
- Robert Lowell (1947-1948)
- Karl Shapiro (1946-1947)
- Louise Bogan (1945-1946)
- Robert Penn Warren (1944-1945)
- Allen Tate (1943-1944)
- Joseph Auslander (1937-1941)
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