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Laureates From: 2000-2008
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Stanley Kunitz
Kunitz served as Consultant in Poetry from 1974-76.
Stanley Kunitz, who occupied the Chair of Poetry at the
Library from 1974 through 1976 as Consultant in Poetry
(before the title was changed to “Poet Laureate Consultant
in Poetry” with the passage in 1985 of P.L. 99-194), was
born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1905. His ten books of
poetry include Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and
Selected (W.W. Norton, 1995), which won the National Book
Award;
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2001-2003
Billy Collins
(1941- ) Collins was born in New York City. He is one of
America’s best-selling poets. His books include “Sailing
Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems” in 2001,
“Picnic, Lightning” in 1998, and “The Art of Drowning” in
1995. In October 2004, Collins was the inaugural recipient of
the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Award for humorous
poetry. He has served as a Literary Lion of the New York
Public Library and he is a distinguished professor of English
at Lehman College, City University of New York, where he
has taught for the past 30 years.
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2003-2004
Louise Glück
In 2001 Yale University awarded Louise Glück its Bollingen
Prize in Poetry, given biennially for a poet's lifetime
achievement in his or her art. Her other honors include the
Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale
Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the M.I.T. Anniversary
Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and
Rockefeller foundations and from the National Endowment
for the Arts.
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2004-2006
Ted Kooser
(1939- ) Kooser, who was born in Ames, Iowa, received his
bachelor's degree from Iowa State and his master's in
English from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is the
author of 10 collections of poetry, including "Delights &
Shadows," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. His other
honors include two National Endowment for the Arts
fellowships, a Pushcart Prize and the Stanley Kunitz Prize
from Columbia. He is a professor in the English department
at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
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2006-2007
Donald Hall
(1928- ) Hall, who was born in New Haven, Conn., received
his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a bachelor’s
in literature from Oxford University. He has published 15
books of poetry, including his latest, “White Apples and the
Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006.” He has also
written 20 books of prose, children’s books and plays. He
received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los
Angeles Times Book Award for his poetry book “The One
Day” (1988). He lives in New Hampshire.
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2006-2007
Charles Simic
(1938- ) Charles Simic was born in Yugoslavia on May 9,
1938. His childhood was complicated by the events of World
War II. He moved to Paris with his mother when he was 15;
a year later, they joined his father in New York and then
moved to Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, where he
graduated from the same high school as Ernest Hemingway.
Simic attended the University of Chicago, working nights in
an office at the Chicago Sun Times, but was drafted into the
U.S. Army in 1961 and served until 1963. He earned his
bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966. From
1966 to 1974 he wrote and translated poetry, and he also
worked as an editorial assistant for Aperture, a photography
magazine. He married fashion designer Helen Dubin in
1964. They have two children. He has been a U.S. citizen
since 1971 and lives in Strafford, N.H.
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