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Poet Laureate of Virginia

Poet Laureate of Virginia

The position of Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the Virginia General Assembly.

Originally, the poet laureate of Virginia was appointed without outside consultation by the General Assembly, usually for one year, in a process that has been described being "more of a political thing".

As of 1996, the procedure was changed and most recently codified in 1998 in Virginia Code, Sec. 7.1–43, as follows:

:7.1-43. Poet laureate. :The honorary position of Poet Laureate of Virginia is hereby created. Beginning in 1998, the Governor may appoint a poet laureate from a list of nominees submitted by the Poetry Society of Virginia. Each poet laureate shall serve a term of two years with no restrictions on reappointment. :(1997, c. 299.)

The Virginia General Assembly now confirms the governor's appointment.

List of poets laureate of Virginia

Luisa A. Igloria was poet laureate in 2020.

Current poet laureate:

  • Mattie Quesenberry Smith (named Nov 26, 2024)

Former poets laureate:

  • Margaret O. Daramola (May 5, 2023 - Nov 25, 2024)
  • Luisa Igloria (July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022)
  • Henry Hart (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2020)
  • Tim Seibles (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2018)
  • Ron Smith (July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2016)
  • Sofia Starnes (July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2014)
  • Kelly Cherry (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2012)
  • Claudia Emerson (August 26, 2008 – June 30, 2010)
  • Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (June 26, 2006 – June 30, 2008)
  • Rita Dove (September 20, 2004 – June 25, 2006)
  • George Garrett (July 9, 2002 – June 30, 2004)
  • Grace Pow Simpson (2000–2002)
  • Joseph Awad (1998–2000)
  • Margaret Ward Morland (1996–1998)
  • Kathryn Forrester Thro (July 1, 1994 – June 30, 1996)
  • Guy Carleton Drewry (1970–1991)
  • Ruby Altizer Roberts (1950; poet laureate emerita, 1992)
  • Leigh Buckner Hanes (1949)
  • Thomas Lomax Hunter (1948)
  • Charles Day (1942–1948)
  • Carter Warner Wormeley (1936–1938)

References

References

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  4. beverly. (2023-05-05). "Governor Glenn Youngkin Announces Margaret O. Daramola as Poet Laureate".
  5. (3 August 2020). "Latest gubernatorial appointments for Aug. 3". Richmond Times-Dispatch.
  6. (June 21, 2018). "Henry Hart has a new title: poet laureate of Virginia". William & Mary News & Media.
  7. (October 7, 2016). "Norfolk's Tim Seibles Sworn in as Poet Laureate at Virginia's State House". AltDaily.
  8. (November 14, 2015). "Ron Smith, Virginia's Poet Laureate. 2016 Guest Writer". Artemis.
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  12. "Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Virginia Poet Laureate Emerita".
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  14. Fox, Margalit. (May 20, 2008). "George Garrett, 78, Southern Novelist, Is Dead". The New York Times.
  15. (March 8, 2016). "Service set for Grace Pow Simpson, former Virginia Poet Laureate". Richmond Times-Dispatch.
  16. "SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 42 2 Offered January 19, 1996 3 Designating Margaret Ward Morland of Lynchburg as Virginia ' s Poet Laureate for July 1, 1996, 4 through June 30, 1997.".
  17. "1995 Session HJ 466 Kathryn Forrester Thro; Poet Laureate.".
  18. (Aug 6, 1991). "Guy Carleton Drewry dies". The Washington Post.
  19. (May 29, 2004). "'That's the way she was, like a bubbling spring'". The Roanoke Times.
  20. (January 24, 2017). "The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II: North America 1894-1960". Oxford University Press.
  21. (December 2009). "Virginia's latter-day cavalier Thomas Lomax Hunter of King George County". Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine.
  22. (March 13, 1948). "Poets Laureate Named In Virginia Richmond, Va.". Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
  23. (May 17, 1998). "Ambassador of Verse". Daily Press.
  24. "Up for auction!".
  25. (August 30, 2013). "Poet Laureates of Virginia".
  26. (1937). "Lights o'Day. A book of poems.". C. Day.
  27. (1904). "Poems". Broadway Publishing Company.
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