List of U.S. states' Poets Laureate
Mississippi
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Poet laureate

Term began

Term ended

Appointed by

Notes

1
Maude Willard Leet Prenshaw
1963
1971 (death)
Gov. Ross Barnett
[24]

2
Louise Moss Montgomery
1973
January 1978 (death)
Gov. William Waller
[24]

3
Winifred Hamrick Farrar
31 July 1978
6 November 2010 (death)
Gov. Cliff Finch
[24]

4
Natasha Trethewey
January 2012
2016
Gov. Haley Barbour
[24]

5
Beth Ann Fennelly
August 2016
present
Gov. Phil Bryant
[25]

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