Peggy Sue Vining (March 4, 1929 – November 26, 2017; née Peggy Sue Caudle) was the sixth

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) ...

of the American state of

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...

since her appointment to the position by Governor

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in 2003.

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1929 births 2017 deaths American women poets Writers from Arkansas Poets Laureate of Arkansas 21st-century American women {{US-poet-1920s-stub