Pennsylvania

State Poet Laureate

City and County Poets Laureate

Philadelphia

In 2024, Kai Davis was named poet laureate of Philadelphia.

York

In 2017, Vito Grippi became the poet laureate of York, Pennsylvania.

Bucks County

In 2024, Lake Angela was appointed the poet laureate of Bucks County.

Erie County

In 2021, Sean Thomas Dougherty was appointed poet laureate of Erie County.

Blair County

In 2022, Erin Murphy was named the inaugural poet laureate of Blair County.

Milford

In 2022, Chuck O’Neil was appointed the inaugural poet laureate of Milford. He will serve a two-year term.

Type	Title	State
Small Press	Autumn House Press	Pennsylvania
Landmark	The Marianne Moore Collection at the Rosenbach Museum & Library	Pennsylvania
Literary Magazine	The Fourth River	Pennsylvania
Literary Magazine	Brilliant Corners	Pennsylvania
Literary Organization	Pennsylvania Center for the Book	Pennsylvania
Small Press	Carnegie Mellon University Press	Pennsylvania
Literary Organization	Pennsylvania Council on the Arts	Pennsylvania
Literary Magazine	The Gettysburg Review	Pennsylvania
Literary Organization	Pennsylvania Poetry Society	Pennsylvania
Literary Magazine	Painted Bride Quarterly	Pennsylvania

In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco 
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel's "Bolero" the way I did
in 1945 in that tiny living room
on Beechwood Boulevard, nor danced as I did
then, my knives all flashing, my hair all streaming,
my mother red with laughter, my father cupping
his left hand under his armpit, doing the dance
of old Ukraine, the sound of his skin half drum,
half fart, the world at last a meadow,
the three of us whirling and singing, the three of us
screaming and

Gerald Stern

1982

We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. By redefining the morning,
we find a morning that comes just after darkness.
We can break through marriage into marriage.
By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond
affection and wade mouth-deep into love.
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

Jack Gilbert

2001

The great, unequal conflict past, 
   The Briton banish'd from our shore, 
Peace, heav'n-descended, comes at last, 
   And hostile nations rage no more;
      From fields of death the weary swain 
      Returning, seeks his native plain.

Philip Freneau

1783

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