List of Poets Laureate from the Library of Congress
This list names all Consultant in Poetry and Poet Laureate of the Library of Congress with year of honor and dates of life.
- 1937–1941 Joseph Auslander (1897–1965)
- 1943–1944 Allen Tate (1899–1979)
- 1944–1945 Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
- 1945–1946 Louise Bogan (1897–1970)
- 1946–1947 Karl Shapiro (1913–2000)
- 1947–1948 Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
- 1948–1949 Léonie Adams (1899–1988)
- 1949–1950 Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
- 1950–1952 Conrad Aiken (1889–1973)
- 1952 William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
- 1956–1958 Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
- 1958–1959 Robert Frost (1874–1963)
- 1959–1961 Richard Eberhart (1904–2005)
- 1961–1963 Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977)
- 1963–1964 Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)
- 1964–1965 Reed Whittemore (1919–2012)
- 1965–1966 Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
- 1966–1968 James Dickey (1923–1997)
- 1968–1970 William Jay Smith (1918–2015)
- 1970–1971 William Stafford (1914–1993)
- 1971–1973 Josephine Jacobsen (1908–2003)
- 1973–1974 Daniel Hoffman (1923–2013)
- 1974–1976 Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006)
- 1976–1978 Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
- 1978–1980 William Meredith (1919–2007)
- 1981–1982 Maxine Kumin (1925–2014)
- 1982–1984 Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)
- 1984–1985 Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985)
- 1984–1985 Reed Whittemore (1919–2012)
- 1985–1986 Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
- 1986–1987 Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
- 1987–1988 Richard Wilbur (1921–2017)
- 1990–1991 Mark Strand (1934–2014)
- 1991–1992 Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996)
- 1992–1993 Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004)
- 1993–1995 Rita Dove (1952–)
- 1995–1997 Robert Hass (1941–)
- 1997–2000 Robert Pinsky (1940–)
- 1999–2000 Rita Dove (1952–), Louise Glück (1943–) and WS Merwin (1927–2019) Special Bicentennial Consultants
- 2000-2001 Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006)
- 2001-2003 Billy Collins (1941-)
- 2003-2004 Louise Glück (1943-)
- 2004–2006 Ted Kooser (1939–)
- 2006–2007 Donald Hall (1928–2018)
- 2007-2008 Charles Simic (1938-)
- 2008-2010 Kay Ryan (1945-)
- 2010–2011 WS Merwin (1927–2019)
- 2011–2012 Philip Levine (1928–2015)
- 2012–2014 Natasha Trethewey (1966–)
- 2014–2015 Charles Wright (1935–)
- 2015–2017 Juan Felipe Herrera (1948–)
- since 2017 Tracy K. Smith (1972-)