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Attendees at the One Word Poetry Festival's Youth Poet Laureate Commencement in Rock Hill, S.C., in 2022. Mick Lowry/Academy of American Poets hide caption
Denise Lajimodiere speaks at the Minnesota Children's Book Festival in Red Wing, Minn., on Sept. 18, 2021. This week, Lajimodiere became the first Native American state poet laureate in North Dakota's history. Chap Achen via AP hide caption
U.S Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. J. Vespa/WireImage hide caption
The new poet laureate of the United States, Tracy K. Smith, visits the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center in Washington, D.C., last month. Shawn Miller/Library of Congress hide caption
Tracy K. Smith Reads 'When Your Small Form Tumbled Into Me'
Juan Felipe Herrera won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2008 for his collection Half of the World in Light. Courtesy of Blue Flower Arts hide caption
Juan Felipe Herrera Named U.S. Poet Laureate
Prime Minister Tony Abbott rankled the judges of the Prime Minister's Literary Award with a last-minute announcement. Judge Les Murray later called Abbott's pick a "stupid and pretentious book." Stefan Postles/Getty Images hide caption
Donald Hall is a former U.S. poet laureate and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2010. Linda Kunhardt/Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hide caption
At 86, Poet Donald Hall Writes On, But Leaves Verse Behind
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian author whose works include The Sound of Things Falling and The Informers. Hermance Triay/Courtesy Riverhead hide caption
The U.S. Capitol at sunrise. Jason Reed/Reuters/Landov hide caption