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Dan Chiasson
Poetry Pavilion
10:30-11 am
Book Signing
11-11:30 am
Poet and literary critic Dan Chiasson has published two books of poetry, The Afterlife of Objects (2002) and Natural History (Random House/Knopf, 2005), as well as a critical book on American poetry: One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America (Univ. of Chicago, 2007). He serves as poetry critic for The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. His awards include a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry, a Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Writers’ Award. He teaches poetry workshops and courses on American poetry at Wellesley College and lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts.