• The Indiana State Poet Laureate is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Indiana. Senate Enrolled Act No. 433 created the position effective July 1,...
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    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...
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    A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems...
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    2020. Retrieved January 28, 2008. Brinkman, Joyce (July 8, 2021). "Indiana Poet Laureate". IAC. Archived from the original on July 8, 2022. Retrieved July...
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    Fischer, Ph.D., professor of history George Kalamaras, Ph.D., Indiana State Poet Laureate (2014) Linda Rising, Ph.D., assistant professor (1984–1987) Anson...
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  • E. A. Richardson (category Poets Laureate of Indiana)
    an American poet. He was the first person to be unofficially designated state poet laureate of Indiana. The Indiana State Poet Laureate position was...
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    Karen Kovacik (category Poets Laureate of Indiana)
    Karen Kovacik is a poet and translator of Polish poetry. She is the former poet laureate of the American state of Indiana from 2011 until 2013. George...
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  • Adrian Matejka (category American poet stubs)
    Adrian Matejka is an American poet. He was the poet laureate of Indiana for the 2018–2019 term. Since May 2022, he has been the editor of Poetry magazine...
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  • Arthur Franklin Mapes (category Poets Laureate of Indiana)
    In 1977, he was designated Indiana State Poet Laureate, a position that was not officially recognized by the State of Indiana until July 1, 2005. Much of...
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  • poetry. After a series of guest editors, poet Adrian Matejka, a writing professor, and past Indiana State Poet Laureate, was named editor in 2022. In September...
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  • Mary Crow (category Poets Laureate of Colorado)
    Mary Crow is an American poet, translator, and professor who served as the poet laureate of Colorado for 14 years. She is the author of three collections...
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  • and Ajiz Ahmad. Poetry portal Lawson Fusao Inada, named state Poet Laureate in 2006 "Poet Laureate Timeline: 1961–1970". Library of Congress. 2008. Retrieved...
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    newspapers. Thanks in part to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's endorsement, he eventually earned successive jobs at Indiana newspaper publishers during...
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  • Marc Harshman (category Poets Laureate of West Virginia)
    (born October 1, 1950) is a Poet Laureate for the state of West Virginia. He was appointed as West Virginia's Poet Laureate on May 18, 2012 by former governor...
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    Arthur Mapes, poet, born and raised in Kendallville, wrote Indiana's state poem and recognized in 1977 as the Poet Laureate for Indiana. David M. McIntosh...
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    poet and women's rights activist who is considered an unofficial poet laureate of Indiana. Bolton collaborated with Robert Dale Owen during Indiana's...
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  • George Kalamaras (category Poets Laureate of Indiana)
    at Albany, SUNY. Between 2014 and 2016 Kalamaras was poet laureate of the American state of Indiana. The Theory and Function of Mangoes (Four Way Books...
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    which it was generally known as "The Poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. He remains...
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  • Jacalyn Eyvonne (category Municipal Poets Laureate in the United States)
    Jacalyn Eyvonne is an African-American poet and filmmaker. She serves concurrently with Kathleen Herrmann as poet laureate of Vallejo, California. Jacalyn Eyvonne...
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  • Diana Ramírez de Arellano (category Poets laureate)
    April 30, 1997) was an American poet, literary critic and professor of Spanish language and literature. A former Poet Laureate of Puerto Rico, she taught at...
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    Ina Coolbrith (category Poets Laureate of California)
    California", she was the first California Poet Laureate and the first poet laureate of any American state. Coolbrith, born the niece of the Church of...
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  • Robert Hayden (category American Poets Laureate)
    poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate....
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  • Brazilian poet, philosopher, and lyricist, Prêmio Jabuti laureate (2013), assisted suicide. Tim Clifford, 65, American football player (Indiana Hoosiers)...
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    Jack Hirschman (category Poets Laureate of San Francisco)
    Also in 2006, Hirschman was appointed Poet Laureate of San Francisco by Mayor Gavin Newsom. In his Poet Laureate inaugural address, Hirschman envisioned...
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  • Freeman Edwin Miller (category Poets from Oklahoma)
    1951) was a poet, lawyer, newspaper editor, professor, and district court judge. Freeman Edwin Miller was born May 19, 1864 near Newtown, Indiana. He attended...
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  • Jonathan Holden (category Poets Laureate of Kansas)
    Jonathan Holden, the first Poet Laureate of Kansas, was a Professor of English at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Chosen in 2004, his two-year...
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    journalist (East Chicago) E. A. Richardson, poet, first Poet Laureate of Indiana (Pike County) James Whitcomb Riley, poet (Greenfield) William Edouard Scott,...
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  • Bruce Dethlefsen (category Poets Laureate of Wisconsin)
    Bruce Dethlefsen is an American poet and teacher of poetry. He was Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2011–2012, having been appointed by Governor James Doyle...
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  • Ken Brewer (category Poets Laureate of Utah)
    2006) was an American poet and longtime scholar who resided in Utah, where he served as Poet Laureate. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Butler...
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