[New-Poetry] Re: laureate

[Roger Day]

The list seems to thin in talent as the years go on. Indeed the list
at the beginning looks decidedly risky - Lowell, Bishop? William
Carlos Williams?

The CIA - through the Congress of Cultural Freedom - funded a lot of
Abstract Expressionist painters just after the war, and exported them
throughout Europe.

Maybe the establishment had better taste then. I wonder if the culture
wars have anything to do with the Poet Laureates visibility? I'm
thinking of the parallels with the NEA squabbles?

Roger

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:42 PM,  <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
> There's another CO on the list...Wm. Stafford. 70-71.
>
>  William Jay Smith is 100 (if he's still with us).
>  And Reed Whittemore is close behind at 99, and it seems he had two terms.
>  Kunitz had already broken thru the century mark when he got his second
> stint.
>
>  Wouldn't you say that the post became more visible when it got renamed Poet
> Laureate?
>  It might have been about as well known as the Bollingen before then.
>  Finnegan
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
>  Sent: Mon, 5 May 2008 3:15 pm
>  Subject: [New-Poetry] Re: laureate
>
>
> Yeah, Lowell was political, even back then.  But the position was far less
> visible then, also.
>
>
> Here's a list of holders of the position:
>
>
>
> U.S. Poet Laureate Timeline
>
> 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 — Leonie 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 — Robert Fitzgerald
> 1984-1985 — Reed Whittemore
> 1985-1986 — Gwendolyn Brooks
> 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
> 1999-2000 — Special Bicentennial Consultants, 1999-2000: Rita Dove, Louise
> Glück, and W.S. Merwin
> 2000-2001 — Stanley Kunitz
> 2001-2003 — Billy Collins
> 2003-2004 — Louise Glück
> 2004-2006 — Ted Kooser
> 2006 — Donald Hall
> 2007---Charles Simic
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> On May 5, 2008, at 1:56 PM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:
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>
> even Lowell during Vietnam--he served one stint, in 1947-8).
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>  --
>  I didn't realize this. Wasn't Lowell a CO during WWII? That would've make
> him a controversial pick on the heels of the war years.
>  Finnegan
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