Consultants in Poetry1937–1941: Joseph Auslander
1943–1944: Allen Tate
1944–1945: Robert Penn Warren
1945–1946: Louise Bogan
1946–1947: Karl Shapiro
1947–1948: Robert Lowell
1948–1949: Léonie Adams
1949–1950: Elizabeth Bishop
1950–1952: Conrad Aiken
1952: William Carlos Williams
1956–1958: Randall Jarrell
1958–1959: Robert Frost
1959–1961: Richard Eberhart
1961–1963: Louis Untermeyer
1963–1964: Howard Nemerov
1964–1965: Reed Whittemore
1965–1966: Stephen Spender
1966–1968: James Dickey
1968–1970: William Jay Smith
1970–1971: William Stafford
1971–1973: Josephine Jacobsen
1973–1974: Daniel Hoffman
1974–1976: Stanley Kunitz
1976–1978: Robert Hayden
1978–1980: William Meredith
1981–1982: Maxine Kumin
1982–1984: Anthony Hecht
1984–1985: Reed Whittemore (interim)
1984–1985: Robert Fitzgerald
1985–1986: Gwendolyn BrooksPoet Laureate Consultants in Poetry1986–1987: Robert Penn Warren
1987–1988: Richard Wilbur
1988–1990: Howard Nemerov
1990–1991: Mark Strand
1991–1992: Joseph Brodsky
1992–1993: Mona Van Duyn
1993–1995: Rita Dove
1995–1997: Robert Hass
1997–2000: Robert Pinsky
2000–2001: Stanley Kunitz
2001–2003: Billy Collins
2003–2004: Louise Glück
2004–2006: Ted Kooser
2006–2007: Donald Hall
2007–2008: Charles Simic
2008–2010: Kay Ryan
2010–2011: W. S. Merwin
2011–2012: Philip Levine
2012–2014: Natasha Trethewey
2014–present: Charles WrightPoet Laureate Special Consultants in Poetry1999–2000: Rita Dove, Louise Glück and W. S. Merwin