Dan Chiasson
Dan Chiasson (born 1971, in Burlington, Vermont) is an American poet and critic. His name is pronounced "chase-in."
Life
He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College[1] (1993), and Harvard University, with a Ph.D in English.
He is currently an associate professor at Wellesley College. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
He is the poetry critic for The New Yorker, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is advisory editor of the Paris Review.[2] His poems have been translated into German by Jan Wagner, the selected poems have been published as "Naturgeschichte" at luxbooks, a publishing house focused on American poetry in bilingual editions.
He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.[3]
Honors and awards
- 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry [4][5]
- Pushcart Prize
- 2004 Whiting Writers' Award
Published works
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- "Swifts", Slate, July 29, 2008
- "Vermont", AGNI
- "Here Follows an Account of the Nature of Birds", Paris Review
Collections
- The Afterlife of Objects. University of Chicago Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-226-10378-5.
- Natural History: Poems. Random House, Inc. 2007. ISBN 978-0-375-71115-2.
- Where's the Moon, There's the Moon: Poems. Random House Inc. 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-27217-1.
Anthologies
- H.L. Hix, ed. (2008). New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States. Irish Pages. ISBN 978-0-9544257-9-1.
Criticism
- "The Anne Winters Challenge", Slate, Nov. 29, 2004
- One Kind of Everything:Poem and Person in Contemporary America. University of Chicago Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-226-10381-5.
- The fidgets of remembrance: three reflections on Robert Lowell's late poetry. Amherst College. 1993.
References
External links
- Dan Chiasson interviewed by Christopher Lydon, "Whose Words These Are," Radio Open Source, 27 May 2010
- "Amherst Poets Dream Date: Interview with Dan Chiasson" by Josh Jacobs, September 2011
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