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Poet Laureate of Missouri

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This is a list of Poets Laureate of Missouri.[1]

Poet Laureate Term Notes
Walter Bargen 2008 – 2010 First Poet Laureate
David Clewell[2] 2010 – 2012
William Trowbridge[3] 2012 – 2016 Term was to end in 2014 but he was not replaced until 2016[4]
Aliki Barnstone[5] 2016 – 2019
Karen Craigo 2019-2021
Maryfrances Wagner[6] 2021– 2023
David Harrison 2023 –

See also

References

  1. ^ "Executive Order 09-28". Office of Missouri Governor. December 24, 2009. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
  2. ^ "Gov. Nixon appoints David Clewell Poet Laureat of Missouri". mo.gov. March 3, 2010. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
  3. ^ "William Trowbridge is new Missouri poet laureate". StlToday.com. April 13, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  4. ^ "LISTEN: Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge's Unofficial Missouri Poem". 6 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Gov. Nixon appoints Aliki Barnstone as new Missouri poet laureate - the Missourian: State News". Archived from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  6. ^ Genet, Mike (July 28, 2021), "A way with words: Independence's Maryfrances Wagner is Missouri's new poet laureate", The Examiner, retrieved 2021-08-01