OK, this is really just a “Vermonter makes good outside Vermont” story. But if you’ve heard of Burlington native Dan Chiasson — now a Wellesley prof, poetry editor of The Paris Review and frequent poetry reviewer in places like the New York Times — Friday’s story in the Huffington Post is a great place to check out his work.

For one thing, the story offers Chiasson’s short poem “Falls, Bristol, VT” in its entirety. And it’s nothing like most nature poetry we read.

This article appears in May 26 – Jun 1, 2010.

Margot Harrison is a consulting editor and film critic at Seven Days. Her film reviews appear every week in the paper and online. In 2024, she won the Jim Ridley Award for arts criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. Her book reviews have also appeared in the New York Times. She is a member of the Online Film Critics Society, with reviews on the Tomatometer, and the author of five novels, including YA thrillers Only She Came Back and We Made It All Up.

One reply on “Former Vermont Poet Dan Chiasson in HuffPo”

  1. Dan Chiasson has a fresh and compelling way with words. My favorite is “Lincoln’s Dream,” which appeared in The New Yorker awhile back.

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