Poeta Laureatus Civitatum Foederatarum, rite Poeta Laureatus in Poesi Consultans Bibliothecae Congressionalis,^[1] est poeta publica Civitatum Foederatarum. Qui poeta laureatus per spatium magistratus ad conscientiam populi excitandam ad maiorem poesis lectae et scriptae aestimationem conatur. Haec dignitas, olim Consultans in Poesi Bibliothecae Congressionalis^[2] appellata, exemplar Poetae Laureati Britanniarum Regni imitatur. Praesens appellatio per actum Congressionalem anno 1985 disposita et constituta est. Officina Poetae Laureati a Sede Libri^[3] administratur.

Poeta Laureatus in Poesi Consultans a Bibliothecario Congressus Civitatum Foederatarum creatur, et munus ab Octobri ad Maium sustinet. Bibliothecarius, candidatos considerans, priores poetas laureatos, laureatum praesentem, et alias auctoritates insignes consulit.

• 1937–1941: Iosephus Auslander
• 1943–1944: Alanus Tate
• 1944–1945: Robertus Penn Warren
• 1945–1946: Ludovica Bogan
• 1946–1947: Carolus Shapiro
• 1947–1948: Robertus Lowell
• 1948–1949: Leonia Adams
• 1949–1950: Elizabetha Bishop
• 1950–1952: Conrad Aiken
• 1952: Gulielmus Carolus Williams
• 1956–1958: Randall Jarrell
• 1958–1959: Robertus Frost
• 1959–1961: Ricardus Eberhart
• 1961–1963: Ludovicus Untermeyer
• 1963–1964: Howardus Nemerov
• 1964–1965: Reed Whittemore
• 1965–1966: Stephanus Spender
• 1966–1968: Iacobus Dickey
• 1968–1970: Gulielmus Jay Smith
• 1970–1971: Gulielmus Stafford
• 1971–1973: Iosephina Jacobsen
• 1973–1974: Daniel Hoffman
• 1974–1976: Stanley Kunitz
• 1976–1978: Robertus Hayden
• 1978–1980: William Meredith
• 1981–1982: Maxine Kumin
• 1982–1984: Antonius Hecht
• 1984–1985: Reed Whittemore (interim)
• 1984–1985: Robertus Fitzgerald
• 1985–1986: Gwendolyn Brooks

• 1986–1987: Robertus Penn Warren
• 1987–1988: Ricardus Wilbur
• 1988–1990: Howardus Nemerov
• 1990–1991: Marcus Strand
• 1991–1992: Iosephus Brodsky
• 1992–1993: Mona Van Duyn
• 1993–1995: Rita Dove
• 1995–1997: Robertus Hass
• 1997–2000: Robertus Pinsky
• 2000–2001: Stanley Kunitz
• 2001–2003: Gulielmus Collins
• 2003–2004: Ludovica Glück
• 2004–2006: Theodorus Kooser
• 2006–2007: Donaldus Hall
• 2007–2008: Carolus Simic
• 2008–2010: Kay Ryan
• 2010–2011: W. S. Merwin
• 2011–2012: Philippus Levine
• 2012–2014: Natasha Trethewey
• 2014–2015: Carolus Wright
• 2015-Prasens: Ioannes Philippus Herrera

1999–2000, pro anniversario ducentesimo Bibliothecae Congressionalis: Rita Dove, Ludovica Glück, et W. S. Merwin

• Poesis Civitatum Foederatarum

• Bibliotheca Congressionalis. 2008. About the Position of Poet Laureate. Library of Congress.
• Bibliotheca Congressionalis. 2008. Poet Laureate Timeline: 1953–1960. Library of Congress.

• Lectiones Poetarum Laureatorum in Key West Literary Seminar:
  • Ricardus Wilbur (2003)
  • Ricardus Wilbur (1993) (lectio Elizabethae Bishop dicata)
  • Carolus Simic (2003)
  • Gulielmus Collins (2003)
• Situs poesi dicatus, www.loc.gov (Bibliotheca Congressionalis)
• "What Do Poets Laureate Do?" blogs.loc.gob (Bibliotheca Congressionalis)