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• The Hurting Kind

  Poems

  Limón, Ada,

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  Ada Limón became United States Poet Laureate in 2022 and is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate. She is the current Poet Laureate.

• Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

  50 Poems for 50 Years

  Harjo, Joy,

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  Joy Harjo was the first Native American to be Poet Laureate and held that title from 2019-2022.

• Such Color

  New and Selected Poems

  Smith, Tracy K.,

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  Tracy K. Smith served as Poet Laureate from 2017-2019 and won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 collection of poems called "Life on Mars."

• Jabberwalking

  Herrera, Juan Felipe,

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  Juan Felipe Herrera was named the first Latino Poet Laureate and held the title from 2015-2017.

• Oblivion Banjo

  the Poetry of Charles Wright

  Wright, Charles, 1935-

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  Charles Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his work "Black Zodiac" and was also Poet Laureate from 2014-2015.

• Native Guard

  Poems

  Trethewey, Natasha

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  Natasha Trethewey was first the Poet Laureate of Mississippi before becoming United States Poet Laureate from 2012-2014.

• Trying to Speak

  Levine, Philip

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  Philip Levine gained notoriety for his poems about working class Detroit and was Poet Laureate from 2011-2012.

• Garden Time

  Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-

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  W. S. Merwin won two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, one in 1971 and one in 2009, and he was the Poet Laureate from 2010-2011.

• The Best of It

  New and Selected Poems

  Ryan, Kay

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  Kay Ryan is the first openly lesbian U.S. Poet Laureate and held the title from 2008-2010.

• Scribbled in the Dark

  Poems

  Simic, Charles, 1938-

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  While Charles Simic won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, he wasn't the U.S. Poet Laureate until 2007.

• The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

  Hall, Donald

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  Donald Hall was the Poet Laureate from 2006-2007 and was known for his rural, and nature-driven poetry.

• Kindest Regards

  New and Selected Poems

  Kooser, Ted,

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  Ted Kooser was Poet Laureate from 2004-2006 and was one of the first Poet Laureates selected from the Great Plains; he was originally from Iowa.

• Poems 1962-2012

  Gluck, Louise, 1943-

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  Before Louise Gluck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020, she was the Poet Laureate from 2003-2004.

• The Rain in Portugal

  Poems

  Collins, Billy,

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  Billy Collins was Poet Laureate from 2001-2003 and represented New York City in a majority of his work.

• The Best American Poetry, 2014

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  This collection of poetry includes work from Stanley Kunitz who was Poet Laureate twice, once in 1974 and then again in 2000.

• Jersey Rain

  Poems

  Pinsky, Robert

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  Robert Pinsky was the first Poet Laureate to service as Poet Laureate three times from 1997-2000.

• A Little Book on Form

  An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

  Hass, Robert,

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  Robert Hass won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 but before that in 1995-1997, he served at Poet Laureate.

• Collected Poems

  1974--2004

  Dove, Rita,

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  Rita Dove is the first Black poet to be appointed since the position of Poet Laureate changed from "consultant in poetry" in 1986. She served from 1993-1995.

• A Time of Bees

  Mona Van Duyn

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  Another Iowan, Mona Van Duyn was Poet Laureate from 1992-1993.

• Poltory komnaty = In a room and a half

  Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996,

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  Joseph Brodsky is a Russian American poet who served as Poet Laureate from 1991-1992.