Dan Chiasson

Dan Chiasson is the author of four books, most recently a book of poems, Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon (Knopf 2010).

He is the poetry critic for The New Yorker, and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Chiasson was born and raised in Burlington, Vermont, attended Amherst College and received a PhD from Harvard University. He is a professor of English at Wellesley College.

In Spring 2012, Dan will be joining the Boston University Creative Writing faculty to teach one of our MFA in Poetry writing workshops.

You can read Dan’s criticism in The New Yorker and a recent interview with him in Guernica magazine.

 

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