Former UK Poet Laureate John Betjeman is alleged to have described the view as the finest in Europe.
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Ex-poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion said "townies in the countryside" were "gutting" rural communities.
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion said it was "the prize most poets want to win".
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Ryan, the current U.S. Poet Laureate, writes frequently for The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
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The Massachusetts-born poet was granted the literati title of US Poet Laureate in 1949 and 1950.
Desperate for advice, I wrote to my dear friend Donald Hall, the former poet laureate.
Poet Laureate Ted Hughes was patron of the award until his death last year.
He was elected professor of poetry at Oxford in 1951 and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968.
He beat off competition from the bookies' favourite and the poet laureate to win his first major award.
Hughes was made Poet Laureate in 1984 and remained in the post until his death from cancer in 1998.
Many Cornishmen wanted him for their official Poet Laureate, cocking a deliberate snub at their long-felt colonisation by Anglo-Saxons.
Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, has written the words for a new song with music by composer Orlando Gough.
But he has long held dual Irish citizenship, and his father, the English poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, was born in Ireland.
In the spirit of that failed experiment, I reached out this week to Billy Collins, the U.S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003.
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The Mattatuck Museum now has an exhibit dedicated to Fortune, including a poem, called The Manumission Requiem, by Connecticut Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson.
Actor Jeremy Irons read Last Post by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy during the service to recognise military and civilian contributions to the conflict.
Taking part will be several of the poetry world's leading lights, including Irish writer Seamus Heaney, New Zealand's Bill Manhire and former US poet laureate Kay Ryan.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy described it as "an unprecedented initiative".
It has been described as "heavy-footed" by ex-poet laureate Andrew Motion.
As National Poet for Wales, when Alan Hewson asked me and Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, to read at the festival of architecture, we gladly agreed.
Timrod has been called the poet laureate of the Confederacy.
The late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, has won the TS Eliot prize for his work, Birthday Letters, a personal collection of verse letters to former wife and poet Sylvia Plath.
The children's laureate prize was actually the brainchild of Morpurgo and his friend the late poet laureate Ted Hughes, but it was not set up until after the death of Hughes.
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion is intent on saving future generations from wracking their brains about what that boy was doing on the burning deck or what Philip Larkin said about their parents.
Speakers will include Kennedy, who is the honorary chairwoman of the Grand Central Centennial Committee, as well as actress Cynthia Nixon, former Mets star Keith Hernandez, former poet laureate Billy Collins and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
It's good for you, says Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner in 1984 of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, who is the chair of the judges, said: "In a year which saw a record number of submissions, my fellow judges and I are delighted with a shortlist which sparkles with energy, passion and freshness and which demonstrates the range and variety of poetry being published in the UK".
Check out the very readable new verse translation of Beowulf from Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel laureate.
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