The West Virginia Poetry Society 

History of the Poet Laureate post in West Virginia and information on the current poet laureate, Irene McKinney is coming soon!

Previous Laureates:

Karl Myers (1927-1937)

Roy Lee Harmon  (1937-1943)

James Lowell McPherson (1943-1946)

Roy Lee Harmon (1946-1960)

     *The Cook Family of Wyoming County

Vera Andrews Harvey (1960-1961)

Roy Lee Harmon (1961-1979)

Louise McNeill (1979-1993)

     *WVU's Wise Library

     *West Virginia

Irene McKinney on the Web

West Virginia Wesleyan College

WV Library Commission

On Hunting 

WV Center for the Book

Conversation Part 1

Conversation Part 2

Conversation Part 3

The Mountains: My Hopes

Writing the Truth by Mark Dalessandro

A Verse from Country Roads by Pat Lawrence

Three Poems

At 24

Atavistic

on Mountaintop Removal

On Amazon.com