Helen Chasin

Helen S. Chasin (July 23, 1938 – June 10, 2015) was an American poet.^[1]

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.

• 1968 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
• 1968 Bread Loaf Fellow ^[10]
• 1968 to 1970 Bunting Institute fellow

• "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"

• 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.

• "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