Poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our nation's Poet Laureate since the post (originally called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) was established in 1937.

At head of title: In association with the Library of Congress. Poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our nation's Poet Laureate since the post (originally called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) was established in 1937.

2010- and 1999-2000: W.S. Merwin -- 2008-2010: Kay Ryan -- 2007-2008: Charles Simic -- 2006-2007: Donald Hall -- 2004-2006: Ted Kooser -- 2003-2004: Louise Glück -- 2001-2003: Billy Collins -- 2000-2001 and 1974-1976: Stanley Kunitz -- 1997-2000: Robert Pinsky -- 1995-1997: Robert Hass -- 1993-1995: Rita Dove -- 1992-1993: Mona Van Duyn -- 1991-1992: Joseph Brodsky -- 1990-1991: Mark Strand -- 1988-1990 and 1963-1964: Howard Nemerov -- 1987-1988: Richard Wilbur -- 1986-1987 and 1944-1945: Robert Penn Warren -- 1985-1986: Gwendolyn Brooks -- 1984-1985: Robert Fitzgerald -- 1982-1984: Anthony Hecht -- 1981-1982: Maxine Kumin -- 1978-1980: William Meredith -- 1976-1978: Robert Hayden --1973-1974: Daniel Hoffman --1971-1973: Josephine Jacobsen -- 1970-1971: William Stafford -- 1968-1970: William Jay Smith -- 1966-1968: James Dickey -- 1965-1966: Stephen Spender -- 1964-1965 and 1984-1985: Reed Whittemore -- 1961-1963: Louis Untermeyer -- 1959-1961: Richard Eberhart -- 1958-1959: Robert Frost -- 1956-1958: Randall Jarrell -- 1952: William Carlos Williams -- 1950-1952: Conrad Aiken -- 1949-1950: Elizabeth Bishop -- 1948-1949: Léonie Adams -- 1947-1948: Robert Lowell -- 1946-1947: Karl Shapiro -- 1945-1946: Louise Bogan -- 1943-1944: Allen Tate -- 1937-1941: Joseph Auslander.