Joe Russel Kreger (born 1939) is the 2021-2022 poet laureate of the American state of Oklahoma. This is his second term. He was previously appointed in 1998 after the death of Betty Shipley. Kreger was the first poet laureate of the state to be considered primarily a "cowboy poet," and the only besides Eddie Wilcoxen, who was laureate 2011-2012. Born in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, Kreger has spent most of his life as a rancher. His poems have been published as Lookin' at Life (1997, Innovative Broadcast Corp) and Still Lookin' (2000, Doane Agricultural Service).