Amanda Gorman, the 45th Poet Laureate of United States at age 22, a black skinny woman List of poets laureate of the United States
Joseph Auslander
Allen Tate
Robert Penn Warren
Louise Bogan
Karl Shapiro
Robert Lowell, Jr.
Léonie Adams
Elizabeth Bishop
Conrad Aiken
William Carlos Williams (appointed but did not serve)
Randall Jarrell
Robert Frost
Richard Eberhart
Louis Untermeyer
Howard Nemerov
Reed Whittemore
Stephen Spender
James Dickey
William Jay Smith
William Stafford
Josephine Jacobsen
Daniel Hoffman
Stanley Kunitz
Robert Hayden
William Meredith
Maxine Kumin
Anthony Hecht
Robert Fitzgerald
Reed Whittemore
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Penn Warren
Richard Wilbur
Howard Nemerov
Mark Strand
Joseph Brodsky
Mona Van Duyn
Rita Dove
Robert Hass
Robert Pinsky
Stanley Kunitz
Billy Collins
Louise Glück
Ted Kooser
Donald Hall
Charles Simic
Kay Ryan
W.S. Merwin
Philip Levine
Natasha Trethewey
Charles Wright
Juan Felipe Herrera
Tracy K. Smith
Joy Harjo
Amanda Gorman