In 1923, Oregon established a state poet laureate position, which is currently held by Ellen Waterston, who was appointed to a four-year term in 2024.
Poetry Near You
Find poetry readings, workshops, festivals, conferences, literary organizations, and poetry-friendly bookstores, and learn more about poets laureate, in your area.
Recent & Featured Listings
| Type | Title | State |
|---|---|---|
| Literary Magazine | Oregon Literary Review | Oregon |
| Poetry-Friendly Bookstore | Powell's Hawthorne | Oregon |
| Literary Organization | Lane Literary Guild | Oregon |
| Small Press | Oregon State University Press | Oregon |
| Poetry-Friendly Bookstore | St. John’s Booksellers | Oregon |
Related Poets
Anis Mojgani
Anis Mojgani is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Tigers, They Let Me (Write Bloody, 2023).Read more about >
William Stafford
Read more about >Born in 1914, William Stafford's first major collection of poems, Traveling Through the Dark, was published when he was forty-eight years old and won the National Book Award in 1963. He went on to publish more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose. In 1970, he was the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a position currently known as the Poet Laureate).
Photo credit: Marian Wood Kolisch Ursula K. Le Guin
Read more about >Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of several poetry collections, including Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), and over twenty novels, including The Left Hand of Darkness (Walker, 1969).