I’m going to start keeping a checklist of the US Poets Laureate that I’ve read at least one book by and use that to guide my poetical readings.
Consultants in Poetry
Poet Laureate Consultants in Poetry
Joseph Auslander
Allen Tate
Robert Penn Warren
Louise Bogan
Karl Shapiro
Robert Lowell
Elizabeth Bishop
Conrad Aiken
William Carlos Williams
Randall Jarrell
Robert Frost
Richard Eberhart
Louis Untermeyer
Howard Nemerov
Reed Whittemore
Stephen Spender
James Dickey
William Jay Smith
William Stafford
Josephine Jacovsen
Daniel Hoffman
Stanley Kunitz
Robert Hayden
William Meredith
Maxine Kumin
Anthony Hecht
Robert Fitzgerald
Gwendolyn Brooks
Richard Wilbur
Howard Nemerov
Mark Strand
Joseph Brodsky
Mona Van Duyn
Rita Dove
Robert Hass
Robert Pinsky
Stanly Kunitz
Billy Collins
Ted Kooser
Donald Hall
Charles Simic
Kay Ryan
WS Merwin
Philip Levine
Natasha Trethewey