Poets laureate of U.S. states
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Many US states have posts occupied by prominent poets and entitled Poet Laureate of .... The responsibilities are typically similar to those of the Poet Laureate and the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
Most holders of the these titles reach pre-eminence by public competition, and use the office responsibly to further the knowledge and enjoyment of poetry and the written word by citizens of the states in which they hold office.
Laureates have occasionally been controversial; former New Jersey laureate Amiri Baraka resigned after a controversy over a poem. [1][2][3]
The following are the Poet Laureates of their respected states:
| State | Name |
| Alabama | Sue Walker |
| Alaska | Jerah Chadwick |
| Arkansas | Peggy Vining |
| California | Al Young |
| Colorado | Mary Crow |
| Connecticut | Marilyn Nelson |
| Delaware | Fleda Brown |
| Florida | Edmund Skellings |
| Georgia | David Bottoms |
| Idaho | Kim Barnes |
| Illinois | Kevin Stein |
| Indiana | Joyce Brinkman |
| Iowa | Robert Dana |
| Kansas | Jonathan Holden |
| Kentucky | Sena Jeter Naslund |
| Louisiana | Brenda Marie Osbey |
| Maine | Betsy Sholl |
| Maryland | Michael S. Glaser |
| Mississippi | Winifred Hamrick Farrar |
| Montana | Sandra Alcosser |
| Nebraska | William Kloefkorn |
| Nevada | Norman Kaye |
| New Hampshire | Patricia Fargnoli |
| New York | Billy Collins |
| North Carolina | Kathryn Stripling Byer |
| North Dakota | Larry Woiwode |
| Oklahoma | Francine Ringold |
| Oregon | Lawson Fusao Inada |
| Rhode Island | Tom Chandler |
| South Carolina | Marjory Heath Wentworth |
| South Dakota | David Allan Evans |
| Tennessee | Margaret Britton Vaughn |
| Texas | Alan Birkelbach |
| Utah | Kenneth W. Brewer |
| Vermont | Grace Paley |
| Virginia | George Garrett |
| West Virginia | Irene McKinney |
| Wisconsin | Denise Sweet |
| Wyoming | David Romtvedt |
There is no such position in Arizona, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Washington. Hawaii has a state writer.