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Since my last post on state poets laureate there have been only two significant state poet developments. First, on June 27 Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe appointed Ron Smith, Writer-in-Residence at St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, the poet laureate of Virginia. Smith succeeds Sofia Starnes in the post, and is Virginia’s 18th poet laureate.
Second, Florida lawmakers passed HB 513 on June 20th. The law establishes a four-year term for Florida’s state poet laureate and designates all former Florida poets laureate “State Poet Laureate Emerita.”
A complete list of current state poets laureate follows.
| State | Laureate |
| Alabama | Andrew Glaze |
| Alaska | Nora Marks Dauenhauer |
| Arizona | Alberto Ríos |
| Arkansas | Peggy Vining |
| California | Juan Felipe Herrera |
| Colorado | David Mason |
| Connecticut | Dick Allen |
| Delaware | JoAnn Balingit |
| District of Columbia | Dolores Kendrick |
| Florida | Vacant |
| Georgia | Judson Mitcham |
| Hawaii | Kealoha (Steven Kealohapau’ole Hong-Ming Wong) |
| Idaho | Diane Raptosh |
| Illinois | Kevin Stein |
| Indiana | Unofficial: Cecil Tresslar Official: George Kalamaras |
| Iowa | Mary Swander |
| Kansas |
Wyatt Townley |
| Kentucky | Frank X Walker |
| Louisiana | Ava Leavell Haymon |
| Maine | Wesley McNair |
| Maryland | Stanley Plumly |
| Massachusetts | No position |
| Michigan | No position |
| Minnesota | Joyce Sutphen |
| Mississippi | Natasha Trethewey |
| Missouri | William Trowbridge |
| Montana | Tami Haaland |
| Nebraska | Twyla Hansen |
| Nevada | Vacant |
| New Hampshire | Alice B. Fogel |
| New Jersey | No position |
| New Mexico | No position |
| New York | Marie Howe |
| North Carolina | Joseph Bathanti |
| North Dakota |
Larry Woiwode |
| Ohio | No position |
| Oklahoma | Nathan Brown |
| Oregon | Peter Sears |
| Pennsylvania |
No Position |
| Rhode Island | Rick Benjamin |
| South Carolina | Marjory Heath Wentworth |
| South Dakota | David Allan Evans |
| Tennessee | Margaret Britton Vaughn |
| Texas | Dean Young |
| Utah | Lance Larsen |
| Vermont | Sydney Lea |
| Virginia | Ron Smith |
| Washington | Elizabeth Austen |
| West Virginia | Marc Harshman |
| Wisconsin | Max Garland |
| Wyoming | Echo Roy Klaproth |
Help me keep the list of state poets laureate current by contacting me with any changes you discover in the above positions.