The poet laureate of Oklahoma is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

List of poets laureate Violet McDougal – 1923–1931 Paul Kroeger – 1931–1940 Jennie Harris Oliver – 1940–1942 Della Ione Young – 1943–1944 Anne Semple – 1944–1945 Bess Truitt – 1945–1946 Delbert Davis – 1963–1965 Rudolph N. Hill – 1966–1970 Leslie A. McRill – 1970–1977 Maggie Culver Fry – 1977–1995 Carol Hamilton – 1995–1997 Betty Lou Shipley – 1997–1998 Joe Kreger – 1998–2001, 2021–2022 Carl Sennhenn – 2001–2003 Francine Ringold – 2003–2007 N. Scott Momaday – 2007–2008 Jim Weaver McKown Barnes – 2009–2010 Eddie Wilcoxen – 2011–2012 Nathan Brown – 2013–2014 Benjamin Myers – 2014–2015 Jeanetta Calhoun Mish – 2017–2018 Jay Snider – 2023–2024

Prior to statehood, Freeman Edwin Miller was considered the Oklahoma poet laureate.

Julious Caesar Hill was named the Poet Laureate of Oklahoma by the Poet Laureate League of America in 1939.He was the first Black poet laureate in America.

See also

Poet laureate List of U.S. state poets laureate United States Poet Laureate Julie Ann Ward – Poet Laureate of Norman, Oklahoma. Don Blanding – 1937 Poet laureate of Enid, Oklahoma.

References

External links Oklahoma Poet Laureate at Library of Congress Poet Laureate at Oklahoma Arts Council