Dan Chaisson in 2006. Courtesy Guernica.
Dan Chiasson (born May 9, 1971) is an American poet, academic, and literary critic.[1]
Life[]
Chiasson was born in Burlington, Vermont. He graduated from Amherst College in 1993,[2] and received a Ph.D in English from Harvard University.
He is an associate professor at Wellesley College. He lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts.[3]
His work has appeared in AGNI,[4] The New Yorker,[5] The New York Review of Books,[6] He and Meghan O'Rourke are co-poetry editors of the Paris Review.[7] 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.[8]
Recognition[]
- 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry [9][10]
- Pushcart Prize
- 2004 Whiting Writers' Award
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Afterlife of Objects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-226-10378-5
- Natural History: Poems. New York: Knopf, 2005. ISBN 978-0-375-71115-2
- Natural History, and other poems. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2006.
- Where's the Moon, There's the Moon: Poems. New York: Knopf, 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-27217-1
- Bicentennial: Poems. New York: Knopf, 2014.
Non-fiction[]
- One Kind of Everything: Poem and person in contemporary America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-226-10381-5
Edited[]
- Julia Story, Post Moxie: Poems. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2010.
.Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[11]
Audio / video[]
Dan Chiasson
- One Kind of Everything: Poem and person in contemporary America (CD). Princeton, NJ: Recording for the Blind or Dyslexic, 2007.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Dan Chiasson, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Sep. 7, 2015.
- ↑ Poet, Critic and Editor Dan Chiasson '93 Amherst College magazine, Amherst College, Web, Aug. 19, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2008/authors/Chiasson.html
- ↑ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/D/Dan-Chiasson.html
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/dan_chiasson/search?contributorName=dan%20chiasson
- ↑ http://www.nybooks.com/authors/15093
- ↑ http://www.theparisreview.org/page.php/prmID/17
- ↑ http://www.thecommononline.org/about
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/2550-dan-chiasson
- ↑ http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2008/040908.html
- ↑ Search results = au:Dan Chiasson, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 7, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Vermont" AGNI
- "The Anne Winters Challenge", Slate, Nov. 29, 2004
- "Here Follows an Account of the Nature of Birds", Paris Review
- Dan Chiasson profile & 6 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Dan Chiasson at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio / video
- "Swifts", Slate, July 29, 2008
- Dan Chiasson at YouTube
- Dan Chiasson interviewed by Christopher Lydon, "Whose Words These Are," Radio Open Source, 27 May 2010
- Books
- Dan Chiasson at Amazon.com
- About
- Poet, Critic and Editor Dan Chiasson '93, Amherst College magazine.
- "Dan Chiasson on C.P. Cavafy, Newly Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn", Band of Thebes.
- "Q&A: Dan Chiasson Chooses Carefully", Poets & Writers
- "This Mere Guy": Interview with Dan Chiasson, Guernica, 2006
- "Amherst Poets Dream Date: Interview with Dan Chiasson", September 2011.
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