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Virginia State Poet Laureate
Grace Simpson
July 2000 Poet Laureate
§ 7.1-43. Poet laureate.
The honorary position of Poet Laureate of Virginia is hereby created. Beginning in 1998, the Governor may appoint a poet laureate from a list of nominees submitted by the Poetry Society of Virginia. Each poet laureate shall serve a term of two years with no restrictions on reappointment.
(1997, c. 299.) [Repealed.]
July 2000 -- Grace Simpson has been named Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor James Gilmore
Grace Simpson has been named Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor James Gilmore; she will serve until June 2002. Mrs. Simpson, now retired, taught English, creative writing, and journalism at Prince Edward County High School for 15 years. She is a graduate of Winthrop University and holds a M.A. from Longwood College. She has taught at Florida State, Auburn, and Longwood.
Mrs. Simpson's poems have been widely published in such journals as The Southern Poetry Review, The Formalist, Negative Capability, The Christian Century, The Cincinnati Poetry Review, Snake Nation Review, and Zone 3, from which she received the Rainmaker Award for Poetry in 1991. Her new book of poetry, Dancing the Bones, will be released this April.
She is the wife of Hampden-Sydney Professor Emeritus of English Hassell Simpson and has lived on the campus of Hampden-Sydney College for 39 years.
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