Poet Laureate of Iowa information

The Poet Laureate of Iowa is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Iowa. The position was created July 1, 1999 by Subchapter 303.89 of the Iowa Code...

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems...

American poet. She was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1992. Van Duyn was born May 9, 1921, in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in the small town of Eldora...

one of the first poets laureate selected from the Great Plains, and is known for his conversational style of poetry. Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, on...

1937 – December 14, 2020) was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa. Bell was raised in Center Moriches on Long...

a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received...

1948) is an American poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist. Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. He...

sacrifice zone." She is the Poet Laureate of Iowa since 2019. In 2021 she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. Marquart grew up...

was the poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004 to 2008. Robert Patrick Dana was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1929. At the age of seven he...

Evans (born 1940 in Sioux City, Iowa) is an American poet. From 2002 to 2014, he was the poet laureate of the U.S. state of South Dakota. He attended college...

well as three books of poetry, Heaven-and-Earth House, Driving the Body Back, and Succession. She served as the Poet Laureate of Iowa from 2009 to 2019...

English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. He...

— Silver Medalist 1500 meters run, 1936 Olympics Robert Dana — Poet Laureate of Iowa Charles Wesley Flint, President (1915–1922), Methodist bishop Bruce...

(1893–1915), Hungarian poet Erin Belieu (born 1967), US poet Marvin Bell (1937–2020), US poet and teacher; first Poet Laureate of State of Iowa Gioconda Belli...

1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first...

also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms (after Robert Pinsky). Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation (Este...

El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was Halifax's Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She was born...

University of Pennsylvania, Raritan Valley Community College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. From 2009 until his death, he was a distinguished poet-in-residence...

Award for Poetry Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon, Laureate and New Generation Awards New Zealand Poet Laureate Jenko Award KONS International Literary...