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At head of title: In association with the Library of Congress.
Poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our nation's Poet Laureate since the post (originally called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) was established in 1937.
2010- and 1999-2000: W.S. Merwin
2008-2010: Kay Ryan
2007-2008: Charles Simic
2006-2007: Donald Hall
2004-2006: Ted Kooser
2003-2004: Louise Glück
2001-2003: Billy Collins
2000-2001 and 1974-1976: Stanley Kunitz
1997-2000: Robert Pinsky
1995-1997: Robert Hass
1993-1995: Rita Dove
1992-1993: Mona Van Duyn
1991-1992: Joseph Brodsky
1990-1991: Mark Strand
1988-1990 and 1963-1964: Howard Nemerov
1987-1988: Richard Wilbur
1986-1987 and 1944-1945: Robert Penn Warren
1985-1986: Gwendolyn Brooks
1984-1985: Robert Fitzgerald
1982-1984: Anthony Hecht
1981-1982: Maxine Kumin
1978-1980: William Meredith
1976-1978: Robert Hayden
1973-1974: Daniel Hoffman
1971-1973: Josephine Jacobsen
1970-1971: William Stafford
1968-1970: William Jay Smith
1966-1968: James Dickey
1965-1966: Stephen Spender
1964-1965 and 1984-1985: Reed Whittemore
1961-1963: Louis Untermeyer
1959-1961: Richard Eberhart
1958-1959: Robert Frost
1956-1958: Randall Jarrell
1952: William Carlos Williams
1950-1952: Conrad Aiken
1949-1950: Elizabeth Bishop
1948-1949: Léonie Adams
1947-1948: Robert Lowell
1946-1947: Karl Shapiro
1945-1946: Louise Bogan
1943-1944: Allen Tate
1937-1941: Joseph Auslander.
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The poets laureate anthology. ISBN 9780393061819. Published by W. W. Norton in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
