Dan Chiasson

Dan Chiasson (born in Burlington, Vermont) is an American poet, critic and professor.

Life

He graduated from Amherst College^[1] and Harvard University, with a Ph.D in English.

He is currently an associate professor at Wellesley College. He lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts.^[2]

His work appeared in AGNI,^[3] The New Yorker,^[4] The New York Review of Books,^[5] He and Meghan O'Rourke are co-poetry editors of the Paris Review.^[6] 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.^[7]

Honors and awards

• 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry ^[8][9]
• Pushcart Prize
• 2004 Whiting Writers' Award

Published works

• "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 9780226103785. http://books.google.com/books?id=lBJharNOZ1QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dan+Chiasson#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Natural History: Poems. Random House, Inc.. 2007. ISBN 9780375711152. http://books.google.com/books?id=_Qss-s8ZdEIC&dq=Dan+Chiasson&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=C5kHNpfj1a&sig=Tv4EU1IhVC6tYbW-Dv0BHOpopK4&hl=en&ei=p7-rSv3jPIrUM8Wd3fIN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Where's the Moon, There's the Moon: Poems. Random House Inc. 2010. ISBN 9780307272171. 

Anthologies

• H.L. Hix, ed (2008). New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States. Irish Pages. ISBN 9780954425791. 

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 9780226103815. 
• The fidgets of remembrance: three reflections on Robert Lowell's late poetry. Amherst College. 1993. 

References

1. ^ https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/magazine/issues/2009summer/amherstcreates/chiasson
2. ^ http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2008/authors/Chiasson.html
3. ^ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/D/Dan-Chiasson.html
4. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/dan_chiasson/search?contributorName=dan%20chiasson
5. ^ http://www.nybooks.com/authors/15093
6. ^ http://www.theparisreview.org/page.php/prmID/17
7. ^ http://www.thecommononline.org/about
8. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/2550-dan-chiasson
9. ^ http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2008/040908.html

External links

• "This Mere Guy", Guernica, October 2006
• "Q&A: Dan Chiasson Chooses Carefully", Poets & Writers
• "Dan Chiasson on C.P. Cavafy, Newly Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn", Band of Thebes
• 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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