According to a recent press release,Tree Swenson, Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, announced that Rita Dove, Gerald Stern, and Kay Ryan have been elected to the Board of Chancellors, the Academy’s advisory board of distinguished poets. They join current Chancellors Frank Bidart, Robert Hass, Susan Howe, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Pinsky, Susan Stewart, Gary Snyder, James Tate, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C.K. Williams. The Academy’s Board of Chancellors was established in 1946 for the purpose of electing Academy Fellows, and to advise the Academy on literary matters. Chancellors of the Academy have included Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Robert Penn Warren, and James Merrill, among others. Recipients of the annual Fellowship have included poets E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Robert Hayden, and more recently, Charles Simic, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lyn Hejinian, and Sharon Olds.