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Poets Laureate
Canada - George Elliott Clarke,
Great Britain - Carol Ann Duffy
New Zealand - Vincent O'Sullivan
United States -  Juan Felipe Herrera
United States Children's Poet Laureate - Kenn Nesbitt


U.S. State Poets Laureate:
Alabama - Andrew Glaze
Alaska - Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Arizona - Alberto Rios
Arkansas - Peggy Vining
California - Dana Gioia
Colorado
- David Mason
Connecticut - Rennie McQuilkin
Delaware - Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills
District of Columbia - Dolores Kendrick
Florida - no Poet Laureate at this time
Georgia - Judson Mitcham
Hawaii - Kealoha (Steven Kealohapau'ole Hong-Ming Wong)
Idaho - Diane Raptosh
Illinois
- Kevin Stein
Indiana
- George Kalamaras
Iowa - Mary Swander
Kansas - Kevin Rabas
Kentucky - Frank X. Walker
Louisiana - Ava Leavell Haymon
Maine - Wesley McNair
Maryland - Stanley Plumly
Massachusetts
- has no Poet Laureate
Michigan - has no Poet Laureate
Minnesota - Joyce Sutphen
Mississippi - Beth Ann Fennelly
Missouri - William Trowbridge
Montana - Tami Haaland
Nebraska - Twyla Hansen
Nevada
- no Poet Laureate at this time
New Hampshire - Alice B. Fogel
New Jersey
- has no Poet Laureate
New Mexico - has no Poet Laureate
New York - Marie Howe
Nevada
-  position currently vacant
North Carolina - Shelby Stephenson
North Dakota - Larry Woiwode
Ohio - has no Poet Laureate
Oklahoma - Nathan Brown
Oregon
-  Peter Sears
Pennsylvania
- has no Poet Laureate
Rhode Island - Rick Benjamin
South Carolina - Marjory Wentworth
South Dakota
- Lee Ann Roripaugh
Tennessee - Margaret Britton Vaughn
Texas - Dean Young
Utah
- Lance Larsen
Vermont -  Chard DeNiord
Virginia
- Ron Smith
Washington
-  Tod Marshall
West Virginia - Marc Harshman
Wisconsin - Kimberly Blaeser
Wyoming - Rose Hill

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