Previous West Virginia poets laureate

Irene McKinney, 1994 - 2012 

Louise McNeill, 1979 - 1993 

Roy Lee Harmon, 1937 - 1943, 1946 - 1960, 1961 - 1979 

Vera Andrews Harvey, 1960 - 1961 

James Lowell McPherson, 1943 - 1946 

Karl Dewey Myers, 1927 - 1937