Poet Laureate of Mississippi

Poet Laureate of Mississippi
Incumbent Catherine Pierce since 2021
Type	Poet Laureate
Formation	1963
First holder	Maude Willard Leet Prenshaw

The poet laureate of Mississippi is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Mississippi.

Natasha Trethewey was poet laureate in 2012.

List of poets laureate

#	Poet laureate	Term began	Term ended	Appointed by	Notes
1	Maude Willard Leet Prenshaw	1963	1971 (death)	Gov. Ross Barnett	[1]
2	Louise Moss Montgomery	1973	January 1978 (death)	Gov. William Waller	[1]
3	Winifred Hamrick Farrar	31 July 1978	6 November 2010 (death)	Gov. Cliff Finch	[1]
4	Natasha Trethewey	January 2012	2016	Gov. Haley Barbour	[1]
5	Beth Ann Fennelly	August 2016	March 2021	Gov. Phil Bryant	[2]
6	Catherine Pierce	April 2021	present	Gov. Tate Reeves	[3]

External links

• Poets Laureate of Mississippi at the Library of Congress

See also

• Poetry portal

• Poet laureate
• List of U.S. states' poets laureate
• United States Poet Laureate

References

1. Library of Congress. U.S. State Poets Laureate: Mississippi. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
2. Schnugg, Alyssa (10 August 2016). "Oxford's Beth Ann Fennelly named Mississippi poet laureate". Oxford Eagle. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
3. "Catherine Pierce named new Mississippi poet laureate". The Clarion-Ledger. Associated Press. Retrieved 2021-06-03.