Portal:United States Poets Laureate

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 Morris 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 Hass
 * 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
 * 2014–2015: Charles Wright
 * 2015–2017: Juan Felipe Herrera
 * 2017–present: Tracy K. Smith