State Poet Laureate
In 2012, Hawai'i established a state poet laureate position. In 2022, Brandy Nālani McDougall was appointed poet laureate. McDougall is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Hawaiʻi, Maui, and Kauaʻi lineages) poet raised on the slopes of Haleakalā on Maui. Her book, ʻĀina Hānau, Birth Land, is forthcoming in 2022.