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Current State Poets Laureate


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 State  Laureate
 Alabama
  Andrew Glaze
 Alaska
  Peggy Shumaker
 Arizona
  No position
 Arkansas
  Peggy Vining
 California
  Juan Felipe Herrera
 Colorado
  David Mason
 Connecticut
  Dick Allen
 Delaware
  JoAnn Balingit
 District of Columbia
  Dolores Kendrick
 Florida
  Vacant
 Georgia
  Judson Mitcham
 Hawaii
  Kealoha (Steven Kealohapau'ole Hong-Ming Wong)
 Idaho
  Brady Udall
 Illinois
  Kevin Stein
 Indiana

 Unofficial: Cecil Tresslar
 Official: Karen Kovacik
 Iowa
  Mary Swander
 Kansas
  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
 Kentucky
  Maureen Morehead
 Louisiana
  Julie Kane
 Maine
  Wesley McNair
 Maryland
  Stanley Plumly
 Massachusetts
  No position
 Michigan
  No position
 Minnesota
  Joyce Sutphen
 Mississippi
  Natasha Trethewey
 Missouri
  David Clewell
 Montana
  Sheryl Noethe
 Nebraska
  Vacant
 Nevada
  Vacant
 New Hampshire
  Walter E. Butts
 New Jersey
  No position
 New Mexico
  No position
 New York
  Marie Howe
 North Carolina
  Joseph Bathanti
 North Dakota
  Larry Woiwode
 Ohio
  No position
 Oklahoma
  Nathan Brown
 Oregon
  Paulann Petersen
 Pennsylvania
  No Position
 Rhode Island
  Rick Benjamin
 South Carolina
  Marjory Heath Wentworth
 South Dakota
  David Allan Evans
 Tennessee
  Margaret Britton Vaughn
 Texas
  Jan Seale
 Utah
  Lance Larsen
 Vermont
  Sydney Lea
 Virginia
  Sofia Starnes
 Washington
  Kathleen Flenniken
 West Virginia
  Vacant
 Wisconsin
  Max Garland
 Wyoming
  Patricia Frolander
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