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December 15, 1995
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Hopkins Poet Mark Strand Named
Chancellor of Academy of American Poets
Mark Strand, Johns Hopkins University's Elliott Coleman
Professor of
Poetry, has been appointed to the Board of Chancellors of the
Academy of
American Poets. Strand will join 11 other distinguished poets
currently
serving on this prestigious board, including Anthony Hecht, Mona
Van Duyn and
John Ashbery.
The New York City-based Academy of American Poets was
founded in 1934 to
support American poets at all stages of their careers and to
foster an
appreciation of contemporary poetry. It is the largest
organization in the
country dedicated specifically to the art of poetry. The academy
sponsors
national programs including several of the most important poetry
fellowships
and awards in the United States and a poetry reading series which
began in New
York City in 1963 and is now presented across the country.
As a member of the Board of Chancellors, Strand will
determine winners
of fellowhips and advise the academy on literary and
organizational
matters.
Strand is the author of nine books of poems, beginning with
Sleeping
With One Eye Open in 1964 and, most recently, Dark
Harbor in
1993. He has received numerous awards and fellowships including
Fulbright,
Rockefeller, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts and the
MacArthur
fellowships. In 1990, he was elected the fourth poet laureate of
the United
States. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
He resides in Baltimore with his wife and son.
For more information on the Academy of American Poets,
contact Matthew
Brogan at (212) 274-0343.
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