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Poetry

U.S. POET LAUREATE - Charles Wright -2014-2015
GEORGIA POETS LAUREATES – Bettie sellers – 1997-2000; David Bottoms – 2000-2012.                                      
KENTUCKY POETS LAUREATE - Jesse Stuart – 1954-1984; Lillie Chaffin – 1974-1976; Lee Pennington – 1984; Jim Wayne Miller – 1986; James Still – 1995-1996; Gurney Norman – 2009-2010; Frank X Walker – 2013-2015; George Ella Lyon – 2015-2016.                                                                      
NORTH CAROLINA POETS LAUREATE – Fred Chappell – 1997-2002; Kathryn Stripling Byer – 2005-2009; Cathy Bowers – 2010-2012; Joseph Bathanti -2012-2014.      
SOUTH CAROLINA POET LAUREATE – Bennie Lee Sinclair – 1986-2000.                                                                   
VIRGINIA POET LAUREATE – Geoge Garrett – 2002-2004    
WEST VIRGINIA POETS LAUREATE – Karl Myers - 1927-1937; Roy Lee Harmon – 1937-1943, 1946-1960, 1961-1979; James McPherson – 1943-1946; Vera Harvey – 1960-1961; Louise McNeill -1979-1993; Irene McKinney – 1994-2012; Marc Harshman – 2012-present.
Additional important Appalachian Poets: Effie Waller Smith, Emma Bell Miles, Don West, George Scarborough, Jeff Daniel Marion, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Morgan, David Huddle, Maurice Manning, and Jesse Graves
--George Brosi