Elizabeth Alexander has been elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and appointed the inaugural Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry

January 17, 2015

Congratulations to Elizabeth Alexander for being elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, 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, Susan Howe, Adrienne Rich, and Louise Glück, and J. D. McClatchy.

Professor Alexander has also been named as the inaugural Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. The Frederick Iseman Professorship is the first endowed chair at Yale dedicated solely to the field of poetry. Iseman is chair and chief executive officer of CI Capital Partners LLC, which he founded in 1993. He established the post in honor of his class’ 40th reunion.