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Poet Laureates Past Consultants in Poetry and Poets Laureate Consultants in Poetry Joseph Auslander, 1937-1941 Allen Tate, 1943-1944 Robert Penn Warren, 1944-1945 Louise Bogan, 1945-1946 Karl Shapiro, 1946-1947 Robert Lowell, 1947-1948 Leonie Adams, 1948-1949 Elizabeth Bishop, 1949-1950 Conrad Aiken, 1950-1952 First to serve two terms William Carlos Williams, Appointed in 1952 but did not serve Randall Jarrell, 1956-1958 Robert Frost, 1958-1959 Richard Eberhart, 1959-1961 Louis Untermeyer, 1961-1963 Howard Nemerov, 1963-1964 Reed Whittemore, 1964-1965 Stephen Spender, 1965-1966 James Dickey, 1966-1968 William Jay Smith, 1968-1970 William Stafford, 1970-1971 Josephine Jacobsen, 1971-1973 Daniel Hoffman, 1973-1974 Stanley Kunitz, 1974-1976 Robert Hayden, 1976-1978 William Meredith, 1978-1980 Maxine Kumin, 1981-1982 Anthony Hecht, 1982-1984 Robert Fitzgerald, 1984-1985 Appointed and served in a health-limited capacity, but did not come to the Library of Congress Reed Whittemore, 1984-1985 Interim Consultant in Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks, 1985-1986 Robert Penn Warren, 1986-1987 First to be designated Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Richard Wilbur, 1987-1988 Howard Nemerov, 1988-1990 Mark Strand, 1990-1991 Joseph Brodsky, 1991-1992 Mona Van Duyn, 1992-1993 Rita Dove, 1993-1995 Robert Hass, 1995-1997 Robert Pinsky, 1997-2000 Stanley Kunitz, 2000-2001 Billy Collins, 2001-2003 Louise Glück, 2003-2004

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