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Three years later on September 20, 1989, the coalition which became West Florida Literary Federation, Inc, named the second honoree Leonard A. Temme, PhD, a research physiologist with Naval Aerospace Medical Research Lab. He was named with the revised title Poet Laureate of West Florida. At the ceremony, the symbol of the office of poet laureate, a silver and beribboned medallion, was unveiled for the first time. Pensacola jeweler Rock Hard, also a poet, designed and created the medallion which was to be housed in the new Literary Arts Center (now Pensacola Cultural Center) with smaller versions presented to Rosasco-Soule and Temme.
The third poet laureate, Mary Hood, PhD, a professor of microbiology at University of West Florida, was installed in October 1992. Hood also bore the title Poet Laureate of West Florida. The Director of the Creative Writing Program and Associate Professor of English at University of West Florida, Laurie O’Brien, PhD, was named the fourth poet laureate in 1995.
On February 7, 2003 the fifth Poet Laureate of Northwest Florida, Henry Langhorne II, MD, a Pensacola cardiologist, was introduced by WFLF President Margret Hildreth at The Garden Center in Pensacola. The evening’s events included Langhorne reading from his collection ''Winter Clothes'', a book signing and social hour.
