January 17, 2015
Pleased to announce that Elizabeth Alexander has been elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, along with Linda Gregerson and Alicia Suskin Ostriker. This is an honorary position that has been held by some of the most distinguished poets in the United States, including W. H. Auden, John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Adrienne Rich, the late Mark Strand, and our colleagues Louise Glück and J. D. McClatchy.
The complete announce can be read at: www.poets.org