Poets Laureate
- Ina Donna Coolbrith, appointed on June 30, 1915. Held the title until her death in 1928.
- Dr. Henry Meade Bland, 1929–1931
- John Steven McGroarty, 1933–1944
- Gordon W. Norris, 1953–1961
- Charles B. Garrigus, 1966–2000
- Quincy Troupe, June 11, 2002–October 2002.
- Al Young, appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on May 12, 2005.
- Carol Muske-Dukes, appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger on November 14, 2008.
- Juan Felipe Herrera, appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown on March 21, 2012.
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“You know what? Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)