Poets Laureate
Canada - Pierre DesRuisseaux
Poetry Map- Canada's laureates past and present, provincial, municipal and national.


Great Britain - Carol Ann Duffy
New Zealand - Cilla McQueen

United States - Kay Ryan

U.S. State Poets Laureate:
Alabama - Sue Walker
Alaska - Nancy Lord
Arizona - has no Poet Laureate 
Arkansas - Peggy Vining
California - Carol Muske-Dukes
Colorado - Mary Crow
Connecticut - John Hollander
Delaware - JoAnn Balingit
Florida - Edmund Skellings
Georgia - David Bottoms
Hawaii - has no Poet Laureate
Idaho - Anthony Doerr
Illinois - Kevin Stein
Indiana - Norbert Krapf
Iowa - Mary Swander
Kansas - Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Kentucky - Gurney Norman
Louisiana - Julie Kane
Maine - Betsy Scholl
Maryland - Stanley Plumly
Massachusetts - has no Poet Laureate
Michigan - has no Poet Laureate
Minnesota - Joyce Sutphen
Mississippi - Winifred Hamrick Farrar
Missouri - David Clewell
Montana - Henry Real Bird - Read about Henry's poetry pilgrimage here.
Nebraska - William Kloefkorn
New Hampshire - Walter Butts
New Jersey - has no Poet Laureate
New Mexico - has no Poet Laureate
New York - Jean Valentine
Nevada -  position currently vacant
North Carolina - Cathy Smith Bowers
North Dakota - Larry Woiwode
Ohio - has no Poet Laureate
Oklahoma - Jim Barnes
Oregon -  Paulann Petersen
Pennsylvania - has no Poet Laureate
Rhode Island - Lisa Starr
South Carolina - Marjory Wentworth
South Dakota - David Allen Evans
Tennessee - Margaret Britton Vaughn
Texas - Karla Morton - Karla will be a featured author at theBooks Alive Christian and Inspirational Book Festival in Jefferson, TX, November 12 - 14th
Utah - Katharine Coles
Vermont - Ruth Stone
Virginia - Claudia Emerson
Washington -  Samuel Green
West Virginia - Irene McKinney
Wisconsin -Bruce Dethlefsen
Wyoming - David Romtvedt