Past Poet Laureate Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1986-present)

• Philip Levine (2011-)
• W.S. Merwin (2010-2011)
• Kay Ryan (2008-2010)
• Charles Simic (2007-2008)
• Donald Hall (2006-2007)
• Ted Kooser (2004-2006)
• Louise Glück (2003-2004)
• Billy Collins (2001-2003)
• Stanley Kunitz (2000-2001)
• Special Bicentennial Consultants (1999-2000)
  • Rita Dove
  • Louise Glück
  • W.S. Merwin
• Robert Pinsky (1997-2000)
• Robert Hass (1995-1997)
• Rita Dove (1993-1995)
• Mona Van Duyn (1992-1993)
• Joseph Brodsky (1991-1992)
• Mark Strand (1990-1991)
• Howard Nemerov (1988-1990)
• Richard Wilbur (1987-1988)
• Robert Penn Warren (1986-1987)

Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1937-1985)

• Gwendolyn Brooks (1985-1986)
• Reed Whittemore (Interim Consultant in Poetry, 1984-1985)
• Robert Fitzgerald (1984-1985)
• Anthony Hecht (1982-1984)
• Maxine Kumin (1980-1982)
• William Meredith (1978-1980)
• Robert Hayden (1976-1978)
• Stanley Kunitz (1974-1976)
• Daniel Hoffman (1973-1974)
• Josephine Jacobsen (1971-1973)
• William Stafford (1970-1971)
• William Jay Smith (1968-1970)
• James Dickey (1966-1968)
• Stephen Spender (1965-1966)
• Reed Whittemore (1964-1965)
• Howard Nemerov (1963-1964)
• Louis Untermeyer (1961-1963)
• Richard Eberhart (1959-1961)
• Robert Frost (1958-1959)
• Randall Jarrell (1956-1958)
• William Carlos Williams (appointed in 1952 but did not serve)
• Conrad Aiken (1950-1952)
• Elizabeth Bishop (1949-1950)
• Leonie Adams (1948-1949)
• Robert Lowell (1947-1948)
• Karl Shapiro (1946-1947)
• Louise Bogan (1945-1946)
• Robert Penn Warren (1944-1945)
• Allen Tate (1943-1944)
• Joseph Auslander (1937-1941)