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Louise Bogan

American poet (1897–1970)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1945, a role today known as U.S. Poet Laureate, becoming the first woman to hold this title. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker.

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“Louise Bogan” enters the record as american poet (1897–1970). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Louise, Bogan and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Louise, Bogan and American.
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“Louise Bogan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Louise, Bogan and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louise Bogan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.