Whiting Awards
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Edition 20 (2004) Winner
Dan Chiasson
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Dan Chiasson
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1971-05-09 （Burlington, Vermont, United States）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Residence History
- Burlington, Vermont, United States (birth and childhood) → Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States (residence) → Paris, France (NYU Paris program)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, critic, journalist, Professor of English
- Active Years
- 1993-
- Affiliations
- Wellesley College, Department of English (Chair), Boston University MFA program (affiliate), NYU Paris program (affiliate/teacher), Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (Middlebury College), The Paris Review (poetry editor; later advisory editor), The Common (editorial board member)
- Influenced By
- Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, A. R. Ammons
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice Memorial High School | — | High School | — | 1985–1989 | United States |
| Amherst College | Liberal Arts | Classics and English | 文学士（summa cum laude） | 1989–1993 | United States |
| Harvard University | Graduate School | English | Ph.D. | — | United States |
Rice Memorial High School
High School
Period:
1985–1989
Year of Graduation:
1989
Country:
United States
Amherst College
Liberal Arts
/ Classics and English
Degree:
文学士（summa cum laude）
Period:
1989–1993
Year of Graduation:
1993
Country:
United States
Graduated summa cum laude
Harvard University
Graduate School
/ English
Degree:
Ph.D.
Country:
United States
Ph.D. in English; exact year unknown.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Whiting Award | — | — | The Whiting Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2008 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞（フェロー） |
| 2008 | Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | 受賞 |
| 2017 | James Merrill House Fellowship | — | — | James Merrill House | フェロー |
Whiting Award
2004
Organization:
The Whiting Foundation
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2008
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞（フェロー）
Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2008
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
受賞
James Merrill House Fellowship
2017
Organization:
James Merrill House
Result:
フェロー
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Afterlife of Objects
2002 Poetry collectionA poetry collection exploring memory and personal history through everyday objects.
memorymaterialitypersonal historyeveryday life
Natural History
2005 Poetry collectionA poetry collection that contemplates the relationship between humans and the world through themes of natural history and observation.
natureobservationhistorymemory
Translations
- German edition 'Naturgeschichte' (Luxbooks)
One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America
2007 Criticism / NonfictionA collection of critical essays examining the relationship between poems and persons in contemporary American poetry.
poeticspoet biographycontemporary poetry
Where's the Moon, There's the Moon
2010 Poetry collectionA poetry collection that pursues a balance of form and narrative while evoking personal memory and landscape.
memorylandscapeform
Bicentennial
2014 Poetry collectionA poetry collection dealing with themes that intersect personal and national memory.
historynationpersonal history
The Math Campers
2020 Poetry collectionA recent collection that mixes humor and wit while depicting personal experience and observation.
humorpersonal experienceobservation
Bernie for Burlington (forthcoming)
2026 Nonfiction / MemoirA memoiristic nonfiction account of Bernie Sanders's political rise in Burlington, scheduled for publication in 2026.
political historymemoirlocal politics
Bibliography
- The Afterlife of Objects (2002)
- Natural History (2005)
- One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America (2007)
- Where's the Moon, There's the Moon (2010)
- Bicentennial (2014)
- The Math Campers (2020)
- Bernie for Burlington (forthcoming 2026)
Translations of Works
- Natural History → German edition 'Naturgeschichte' (Luxbooks)
- Some poems translated into German by Jan Wagner and others
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- meticulous observational dictionsensitivity to form (experimentation alongside traditional forms)critical and intellectual voice
- Recurring Motifs
- everyday objectsmemory and historydepictions of naturepersonal reminiscence
Legacy
Dan Chiasson is a prominent poet-critic in contemporary American poetry, influential both in academia and in general-interest literary venues (The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books). As an educator at Wellesley College and through translations and international publications, he has received wide recognition.
Academic Societies
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (awardee)
Quotes
-
I'm actually one of the outcomes of the experiment, and so is my book, looking back on the transformation of Burlington and the thrilling rise of Bernie and his ideas.
Source: Wikipedia (quotation from book description/announcement) -
The Sewanee Review called Chiasson 'the country's most visible poet-critic.'
Source: The Sewanee Review (review/notice)
Trivia
- Grew up as an only child in Burlington, Vermont.
- Attended Catholic schools (Mater Christi, Rice Memorial High School).
- Longtime contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.
- Poems have been translated into multiple languages, including German.