Als opvolgster van Billy Collins is de dichteres Louise Glück (1943) (spreek uit: Click!) door de Library of Congress voorgedragen als nieuwe Poet Laureate van de VS.

Dit is een fragment uit het gedicht Siren (1986):

I became a criminal when I fell in love.
Before that I was a waitress.
I didn't want to go to Chicago with you.
I wanted to marry you, I wanted
Your wife to suffer.
I wanted her life to be like a play
In which all the parts are sad parts.
Does a good person
Think this way? I deserve
Credit for my courage . . .