Derricotte, Hirshfield, Sze elected AAP Chancellors

Published on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Tree Swenson, Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, has announced that Toi Derricotte, Jane Hirshfield, and Arthur Sze have been elected to the Board of Chancellors, the Academy’s advisory board of distinguished poets.

Each of the new Chancellors will have a poem featured in the Academy’s Poem-A-Day program, starting today with Toi Derricotte. To sign up, visit www.poets.org/poemaday.