Helen Chasin

Helen S. Chasin (1938–2015) was an American poet.[1]

Life

Chasin grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

She attended Radcliffe College and studied with Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell,[2] and John Nims.[3] She taught at Emerson College, where Thomas Lux was her student.[4]

In 1973, she edited Iowa Review.[5]

Her work appeared in The Missouri Review.[6] New York Quarterly,[7] Paris Review,[8]

She lived in Rockport, Massachusetts.[9] She died June 10, 2015 in New York City.

Awards

• 1968 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
• 1968 Bread Loaf Fellow [10]
• 1968 to 1970 Bunting Institute fellow

Works

• "Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe", Blue Ridge Journal
• Casting Stones. Little, Brown. 1975. ISBN 978-0-316-13822-2.
• Coming Close (Yale University Press, 1968) reprint. AMS Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-404-53863-7.
• "The Word Plum"

Anthologies

• George Bradley, ed. (March 30, 1998). The Yale Younger Poets Anthology. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07472-7.
• Alison Booth; J. Paul Hunter; Kelly J. Mays, eds. (October 5, 2006). The Norton Introduction to Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-92857-0.
• Wolfgang Mieder, ed. (February 1, 1988). Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. Vermont. ISBN 978-0-87451-440-7.

References

1. "HELEN CHASIN's Obituary". New York Times. June 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
2. David Laskin (2001). Partisans: marriage, politics, and betrayal among the New York intellectuals. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-46893-8.
3. "AuthorBio".
4. "Details, Details", The Atlantic, Peter Swanson, December 8, 2004
5. Hamilton, David B. (1996). Hard Choices. ISBN 9780877455363.
6. "The Missouri Review".
7. http://www.nyquarterly.org/issues/?id=19
8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-12-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
9. "Helen Chasin".
10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2009-12-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• "WE ARE WHAT WE SAY WE EAT: WHAT'S ON THE MENU IN THE POETRY CLASSROOM?", The CEA Forum, Tom Getz, Winter/Spring 2008: 37.1