The position of poet laureate of the United States is somewhat different from that of Britain, where the title was first established in the 17th century. Whereas the British office renders the laureate a salaried member of the British royal household, the American poet laureate acts as the chair of poetry for the Library of Congress. The position was established in 1936 by an endowment from the author Archer M. Huntington, and the title of poet laureate was created in 1985. Although the British poet laureate is now free of specific poetic duties, the American poet laureate, who is appointed annually, is expected to present one major poetic work and to appear at certain national ceremonies. This list orders the laureates chronologically, from the first to the most recent.
Joseph Auslander
Allen Tate
Robert Penn Warren
Louise Bogan
Karl Shapiro
Robert Lowell, Jr.
Léonie Adams
Elizabeth Bishop
Conrad Aiken
William Carlos Williams
Randall Jarrell
Robert Frost
Richard Eberhart
Louis Untermeyer
Howard Nemerov
Reed Whittemore
Stephen Spender
James Dickey
William Jay Smith
William Stafford
Josephine Jacobsen
Daniel Hoffman
Stanley Kunitz
Robert Hayden
William Meredith
Maxine Kumin
Anthony Hecht
Robert Fitzgerald
Reed Whittemore
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Penn Warren
Richard Wilbur
Howard Nemerov
Mark Strand
Joseph Brodsky
Mona Van Duyn
Rita Dove
Robert Hass
Robert Pinsky
Stanley Kunitz
Billy Collins
Louise Glück
Ted Kooser
Donald Hall
Charles Simic
Kay Ryan
W.S. Merwin
Philip Levine
Natasha Trethewey
Charles Wright
Juan Felipe Herrera
Tracy K. Smith
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