The Poet Laureate of Alaska also known as Alaska State Writer Laureate is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Alaska. The first Alaska Poet Laureate, Margaret Mielke, was appointed in 1963.[1] The program expanded to include other kinds of writers in 1996.[1]
List of Poets Laureate
editPoets laureate of Alaska include:[1][2]
- Margaret Mielke (1963-1965)
- Oliver Everette (1965-1967)
- John Haines (1969)
- Ruben Gaines (1973)
- Sheila Nickerson (1977)
- Richard Dauenhauer (1981)
- Joanne Townsend (1988)
- Tom Sexton (1995)
List of State Writer Laureate
edit- Richard Nelson (2000)
- Anne Hanley (2002-2004)
- Jerah Chadwick (2004-2006)
- John Straley (2006-2008)
- Nancy Lord (2008-2010)
- Peggy Shumaker (2010-2012)
- Nora Marks Dauenhauer (2012-2014)
- Frank Soos (2014-2016)
- Ernestine Hayes (2016-2019)
- Heather Lende (2021– )[3]
External links
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Library of Congress. U.S. State Poets Laureate: Alaska. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "State Writer Laureate". Alaska Humanities Forum. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Heather Lende, whose memoirs chronicle life in Haines, is named Alaska State Writer Laureate". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
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