 She was the Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2010 to 2014.Ponsot lived in New York City until her death at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital on July 5, 2019.Ponsot authored several collections of poetry, including "The Bird Catcher" (1998), a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and "Springing