Lit Genius Editors - List of US Poet Laureates lyrics

Consultants in Poetry 1937–1941: Joseph Auslander 1943–1944: Allen Tate 1944–1945: Robert Penn Warren 1945–1946: Louise Bogan 1946–1947: Karl Shapiro 1947–1948: Robert Lowell 1948–1949: Léonie Adams 1949–1950: Elizabeth Bishop 1950–1952: Conrad Aiken 1952: William Carlos Williams 1956–1958: Randall Jarrell 1958–1959: Robert Frost 1959–1961: Richard Eberhart 1961–1963: Louis Untermeyer 1963–1964: Howard Nemerov 1964–1965: Reed Whittemore 1965–1966: Stephen Spender 1966–1968: James Dickey 1968–1970: William Jay Smith 1970–1971: William Stafford 1971–1973: Josephine Jacobsen 1973–1974: Daniel Hoffman 1974–1976: Stanley Kunitz 1976–1978: Robert Hayden 1978–1980: William Meredith 1981–1982: Maxine Kumin 1982–1984: Anthony Hecht 1984–1985: Reed Whittemore (interim) 1984–1985: Robert Fitzgerald 1985–1986: Gwendolyn Brooks Poet Laureate Consultants in Poetry 1986–1987: Robert Penn Warren 1987–1988: Richard Wilbur 1988–1990: Howard Nemerov 1990–1991: Mark Strand 1991–1992: Joseph Brodsky 1992–1993: Mona Van Duyn 1993–1995: Rita Dove 1995–1997: Robert Ha** 1997–2000: Robert Pinsky 2000–2001: Stanley Kunitz 2001–2003: Billy Collins 2003–2004: Louise Glück 2004–2006: Ted Kooser 2006–2007: Donald Hall 2007–2008: Charles Simic 2008–2010: Kay Ryan 2010–2011: W. S. Merwin 2011–2012: Philip Levine 2012–2014: Natasha Trethewey 2014–present: Charles Wright Poet Laureate Special Consultants in Poetry 1999–2000: Rita Dove, Louise Glück and W. S. Merwin