Poet Laureate of Mississippi explained

Post:	Poet Laureate
Body:	Mississippi
Incumbent:	Catherine Pierce
Incumbentsince:	2021
Type:	Poet Laureate
Formation:	1963
First:	Maude Willard Leet Prenshaw

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

List of Poets Laureate

	Poet laureate	Term began	Term ended	Appointed by	Notes
1	Maude Willard Leet Prenshaw	1963	1971 (death)		^[1]
2	Louise Moss Montgomery	1973	January 1978 (death)
3		31 July 1978	6 November 2010 (death)
4		January 2012	2016
5		August 2016	March 2021		^[2]
6	Catherine Pierce	April 2021	present	Gov. Tate Reeves	^[3]

External links

• Poets Laureate of Mississippi at the Library of Congress

See also

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

Notes and References

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