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poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...
for the U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...
of Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
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List of Poets Laureate
*Violet McDougal
Violet McDougal (1893–1989) was an American poet. She was the first poet laureate of the state of Oklahoma, serving from 1923 to 1931.
Biography
McDougal was born in Tennessee, 1893. She attended the University of Oklahoma, the University of Mis ...
– 1923–1931
* Paul Kroeger – 1931–1940
*Jennie Harris Oliver
Jennie Harris Oliver (March 18, 1864 – June 3, 1942) was an American author.
Born in Lowell, Michigan, Oliver became a school teacher and moved to Oklahoma in 1892. She was the poet laureate of Oklahoma from 1940 to her death in 1942. Her poems ...
– 1940–1942
* Della Ione Young – 1943–1944
* Anne Semple – 1944–1945
*Bess Truitt Bess Truitt (1884–1972) served as the Oklahoma Poet Laureate from 1945 to 1946. Since no poet laureate was appointed directly after her, Truitt also served as poet laureate emeritus from 1946 to 1963.Patricia Yarbrough, "Poets Laureate," The Ency ...
– 1945–1946
* Delbert Davis – 1963–1965
* Rudolph N. Hill – 1966–1970
* Leslie A. McRill – 1970–1977
*Maggie Culver Fry
Maggie Culver Fry (1900-1998) was the tenth poet laureate of Oklahoma, appointed in 1977 by Governor David L. Boren. Fry wrote her first poem at the age of 10 and now has more than 800 stories, poems, and articles published.
Life and career
Fr ...
– 1977–1995
* Carol Hamilton – 1995–1997
* Betty Lou Shipley – 1997–1998
*Joe Kreger
Joe Russel Kreger (born 1939 in Tonkawa, Oklahoma) served twice as poet laureate of the American state of Oklahoma. He was previously appointed in 1998 after the death of Betty Shipley, and reappointed in 2021. Kreger was the first poet laureate ...
– 1998–2001, 2021-2022
*Carl Sennhenn
Carl Braun Sennhenn is an American writer and academic who served from as the 14th Poet Laureate of Oklahoma from 2001 until 2003. Along with Francine Ringold, he is one of two poets to win the Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry twice, in 2007 and i ...
– 2001–2003
* Francine Ringold – 2003–2007
*N. Scott Momaday
Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) is a Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His novel ''House Made of Dawn'' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native ...
– 2007–2008
* Jim Weaver McKown Barnes – 2009–2010
*Eddie Wilcoxen
Eddie D. Wilcoxen (born 1949) served as the eighteenth poet laureate of the state of Oklahoma, appointed by Governor Brad Henry. Previous to his appointment, Wilcoxen was well known as a broadcaster with KWHW (AM) in Altus, Oklahoma. Wilcoxen's ...
– 2011–2012
* Nathan Brown – 2013–2014
*Benjamin Myers
Benjamin Myers (born 14 May 1978) is an Australian theologian at Alphacrucis University College, and a research fellow of the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University. From 2009 to 2017 Myers was a lecturer at Uni ...
– 2014–2015
*Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
Jeanetta Calhoun Mish (born 1961) is an American poet and served as Oklahoma's twenty-first poet laureate.
Biography
Born in Hobart, Oklahoma in 1961, Mish was educated at the University of Houston, the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, a ...
– 2017–2018
*Jay Snider Jay Snider may refer to:
* Jay T. Snider, American former NHL executive
* Jay Snider (poet), poet laureate of Oklahoma
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- 2023-2024
See also
*Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...
* List of U.S. states' poets laureate
Many of the states in the United States have established the post of poet laureate to which a prominent poet residing in the respective state is appointed. The responsibilities of the state poets laureate are similar to those of the Poet Laureat ...
* United States Poet Laureate
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national cons ...
* Julie Ann Ward
Julie Ann Ward (born in Antlers, Oklahoma) is the first poet laureate of Norman, Oklahoma. Norman was the first city in Oklahoma to appoint a poet laureate. She was born in Antlers, Oklahoma, and grew up in Elko, Nevada and Stillwater, Oklahoma ...
- Poet Laureate of Norman, Oklahoma.
References
External Links
Oklahoma Poet Laureate at Library of Congress
Oklahoma culture American Poets Laureate {{Oklahoma-gov-stub