[New-Poetry] Re: laureate

[jforjames at aol.com]

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:



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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