Poet Laureate of Delaware

The poet laureate of Delaware is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Delaware. Poets are appointed to the position by the governor. Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills—twin brothers who are known as the "Twin Poets"—were appointed 17th poets laureate of the state of Delaware on December 13, 2015.^[1] According to the Library of Congress, they are the first co-laureates appointed by a state and the first siblings to share the position.^[2][3][4][5]

List of poets laureate

#	Poet laureate	Term	Appointed by	Notes
1	Edna Deemer Leach	1947–49	Bacon	[4][5]
2	Jeannette Slocum Edwards	1950–53	Carvel	[4][5]
3	Frances Shannon Flowers (McNeal)	1954	Boggs	[4][5]
4	Katherine King Johnson	1955	Boggs	[4][5]
5	David Hudson	1956–60	Boggs	[4][5]
6	Alison Kimball Bradford	1961	Buckson	[4][5]
7	Margaret Eleanor Weaver	1962	Carvel	[4][5]
8	Mother Aloysius Peach	1963–64	Carvel	[4][5]
9	Percival R. Roberts III	1965–66	Terry	[4][5]
10	Joyce Carlson	1967–68	Terry	[4][5]
11	Antonia Bissell Laird	1969–70	Peterson	[4][5]
12	Harry Eisenberg	1971	Peterson	[4][5]
13	David Hudson	1975–76	Tribbitt	[4][5]
14	e. j. lanyon	1979–81	du Pont	[4][5]
15	Fleda Brown	2001–07	Minner	[4][5]
16	JoAnn Balingit	2008–2015	Minner	[4][5]
17	Nnamdi Chukwuocha Albert Mills	2015–	Markell	[1][5]

External links

• Poets laureate of Delaware at the Library of Congress

See also

• Poetry portal

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