Poet Laureate

Thomas and Beulah author Rita Dove was Poet Laureate. How many other Laureates have you read?

Here's the list of American laureates, earliest to latest, as listed on the Library of Congress website.

Aside from Rita Dove, with how many are you familiar?

Joseph Auslander, 1937-1941

Allen Tate, 1943-1944

Robert Penn Warren, 1944-1945

Louise Bogan, 1945-1946

Karl Shapiro, 1946-1947

Robert Lowell, 1947-1948

Leonie Adams, 1948-1949

Elizabeth Bishop, 1949-1950

Conrad Aiken, 1950-1952 First to serve two terms

William Carlos Williams, (Appointed in 1952 but did not serve.)

Randall Jarrell, 1956-1958

Robert Frost, 1958-1959

Richard Eberhart, 1959-1961

Louis Untermeyer, 1961-1963

Howard Nemerov, 1963-1964

Reed Whittemore, 1964-1965

Stephen Spender, 1965-1966

James Dickey, 1966-1968

William Jay Smith, 1968-1970

William Stafford, 1970-1971

Josephine Jacobsen, 1971-1973

Daniel Hoffman, 1973-1974

Stanley Kunitz, 1974-1976

Robert Hayden, 1976-1978

William Meredith, 1978-1980

Maxine Kumin, 1981-1982

Anthony Hecht, 1982-1984

Robert Fitzgerald, 1984-1985

Reed Whittemore, 1984-1985

Gwendolyn Brooks, 1985-1986

Robert Penn Warren, 1986-1987

Richard Wilbur, 1987-1988

Howard Nemerov, 1988-1990

Mark Strand, 1990-1991

Joseph Brodsky, 1991-1992

Mona Van Duyn, 1992-1993

Rita Dove, 1993-1995

Robert Hass, 1995-1997

Robert Pinsky, 1997-2000

Stanley Kunitz, 2000-2001

Billy Collins, 2001-2003

Louise Glück, 2003-2004

Ted Kooser, 2004-2006

Here's the Library of Congress website where I got this info today: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2006/06-131.html