Collecting Delaware Books
An extensive article on Delaware's Poets Laureate was printed in vol. 7, no. 1 of Collecting Delaware Books. The following table is taken from that article and updated.
| No. | Dates | Poet Laureate | Appointing Governor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1947-49 | Edna Deemer Leach | Bacon |
| 2 | 1950-53 | Jeannette Slocum Edwards | Carvel |
| 3 | 1954 | Frances Shannon Flowers (McNeal) | Boggs |
| 4 | 1955 | Katherine King Johnson | Boggs |
| 5 | 1956-60 | David Hudson | Boggs |
| 6 | 1961 | Alison Kimball Bradford | Buckson |
| 7 | 1962 | Margaret Eleanor Weaver | Carvel |
| 8 | 1963-64 | Mother Aloysius Peach | Carvel |
| 9 | 1965-66 | Percival Roberts | Terry |
| 10 | 1967-68 | Joyce Carlson | Terry |
| 11 | 1969-70 | Antonia Bissell Laird | Peterson |
| 12 | 1971 | Harry Eisenberg | Peterson |
| 13 | 1975-76 | David Hudson | Tribbitt |
| 14 | 1979-81 | e. j. lanyon | du Pont |
| 15 | 2001-07 | Fleda Brown | Minner |
| 16 | 2008- | JoAnn Balingit | Minner |