Dan Chiasson (/ˈtʃeɪsən/; born May 9, 1971[1]) is an American poet, critic, and journalist. The Sewanee Review called Chiasson "the country's most visible poet-critic." He is the Lorraine Chao Wang Professor of English Literature at Wellesley College.
Chiasson is the author of six books: The Afterlife of Objects (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Natural History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Where's the Moon, There's the Moon (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), Bicentennial (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) and The Math Campers (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020).
Chiasson is currently working on a nonfiction book, Bernie for Burlington: A Story of Politics and Change in One American Place, based in part on his own early memories of Mayor Sanders, to be published by Knopf in 2026.
- ^ Dan Chiasson at poets.org.