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Helen S. Chasin (July 23, 1938 – June 10, 2015) was an American poet.

Life

Chasin grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

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

In 1973, she edited Iowa Review.

Her work appeared in The Missouri Review. New York Quarterly, Paris Review,

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

Awards

• 1968 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
• 1968 Bread Loaf Fellow
• 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

• Bradley, George, ed. (March 30, 1998). The Yale Younger Poets Anthology. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07472-7.
• Booth, Alison; Hunter, J. Paul; Mays, Kelly J., eds. (October 5, 2006). The Norton Introduction to Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-92857-0.
• Mieder, Wolfgang, 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. Laskin, David (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. "NYQ".
8. "The Paris Review - Spring-Summer 1978". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
9. "Helen Chasin". 28 May 1981.
10. "Faculty, 1926-1993". Archived from the original on 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2009-12-14.

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

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