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Oklahoma

In 1923, Oklahoma established a state poet laureate position, which is presently held by Jay Snider. Snider was appointed in 2022 and will serve a one-year term. 

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Type Title State
Literary Organization Poetry Society of Oklahoma Oklahoma
Writing Program Oklahoma State University in Stillwater Oklahoma
Writing Program University of Oklahoma in Norman Oklahoma
Writing Program University of Central Oklahoma Oklahoma
Literary Organization Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. Oklahoma
Festival Scissortail Creative Writing Festival Oklahoma
Festival Oklahoma Literary Arts Festival Oklahoma
Literary Magazine Cimarron Review Oklahoma
Literary Magazine Nimrod Oklahoma
Literary Magazine World Literature Today Oklahoma

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    Alexander Posey

    Alexander Lawrence Posey, born August 3, 1873, was a Muskogee Creek poet, journalist, and humorist known for his poems and Fus Fixico letters.

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    Lisa Lewis

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    Santee Frazier

    Santee Frazier is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He is the author of Dark Thirty (University of Arizona Press, 2009). 

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                   for Chief Black Kettle & the Cheyenne People
I. 2016            
   that journey
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
2016

for Danny Fletcher

Ralph Burns
2000
A man staring at a small lake sees
His father cast light line out over
The willows.  He's forgotten his 
Father has been dead for two years
And the lake is where a blue fog
Rolls, and the sky could be, if it
Were black or blue or white,
The backdrop of all attention.

He wades out to join the father,
Following where the good strikes
Seem to lead.  It's cold.  The shape
Breath takes on a cold day is like
Anything else — a rise on a small lake,
The Oklahoma hills, blue scrub — 
A shape already inside a shape,
Two songs, two breaths on the water.
Ralph Burns
1983

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