Dan Chiasson
Dan Chiasson is an American poet, critic, and journalist. The Sewanee Review called Chiasson "the country’s most visible poet-critic." He is the Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English Literature at Wellesley College.
Chiasson is the author of six books: The Afterlife of Objects, Natural History, One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America, Where's the Moon, There's the Moon, Bicentennial and The Math Campers.
Life
Chiasson grew up in Burlington, Vermont, where he attended Mater Christi School and Rice Memorial High School, from which he graduated in 1989. He graduated summa cum laude in Classics and English from Amherst College, and from Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D in English and was awarded the Whiting Foundation Award in the Humanities.In addition to teaching at Wellesley, Chiasson has been affiliated with Boston University's Master of Fine Arts program, with NYU's program in Paris, France, and with the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Environmental Conference in Ripton, Vt. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons.
He is the poetry critic for The New Yorker, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, where he writes about poetry, pop music and film.
He was the poetry editor and later advisory editor, of the Paris Review. His poems have been translated into many languages, including German by Jan Wagner. His "Natural History" was published as "Naturgeschichte" at Luxbooks, a publishing house focused on American poetry in bilingual editions. In the UK, he is published by Bloodaxe Books.
He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.
Honors and awards
- 2008 Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry
- 2004 Whiting Award
Poetry
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
| From 'The Names of 1,001 Strangers' | 2017 | ||
| Obituary | 2014 | ||
| Self | 2000 | ||
| Swifts | 2008 |