Helen Chasin Explained

Helen Chasin
Birth Date:	23 July 1938
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Death Place:	New York City, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Alma Mater:	Midwood High School Radcliffe College

Helen S. Chasin (July 23, 1938 – June 10, 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
• Book: Casting Stones . Little, Brown . 1975 . 978-0-316-13822-2 .
• Coming Close (Yale University Press, 1968) Book: reprint. AMS Press. 1976. 978-0-404-53863-7 .
• "The Word Plum"

Anthologies

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

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: HELEN CHASIN's Obituary . June 2015 . New York Times . 2018-03-23.
2. Book: Laskin, David. Partisans: marriage, politics, and betrayal among the New York intellectuals. University of Chicago Press. 2001. 978-0-226-46893-8 .
3. Web site: AuthorBio.
4. https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200412u/int2004-12-08 "Details, Details", The Atlantic, Peter Swanson, December 8, 2004
5. Book: Hard Choices. 9780877455363. Hamilton. David B.. 1996.
6. Web site: The Missouri Review.
7. Web site: NYQ.
8. Web site: The Paris Review - Spring-Summer 1978 . 2009-12-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090708231203/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/73 . 2009-07-08 .
9. Web site: Helen Chasin. 28 May 1981 .
10. Web site: Faculty, 1926-1993 . 2009-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091019073540/http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/faculty/1926-93.htm . 2009-10-19 . dead .