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Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

Poet Laureate of Oklahoma 2019

Jeanetta Calhoun Mish was born in Hobart, Oklahoma. She received a BA and an MFA in English from the University of Texas - Permian Basin and a PhD in English from the University of Oklahoma. Mish is the author of What I Learned at the War (Lamar University Press, 2015) and Work Is Love Made Visible: Collected Family Photographs and Poetry (West End Press/University of New Mexico Press, 2009), winner of the 2010 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry. In 2019, she was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Mish currently serves as the poet laureate of Oklahoma.

Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
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Poet Laureate of Oklahoma

Poet Laureate of Oklahoma

In 2019, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Mish plans to present poetry workshops for students in public schools in underserved communities and/or rural areas across the state.