About Helen Chasin
Lived 1938 – 2015 (aged 76–77). Helen Chasin was an American poet and writer.
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
Coming Close (Yale University Press, 1968) "The Word Plum"
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Who was Helen Chasin?
American writer
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Helen Chasin was born in 1938.
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Helen Chasin died in 2015.
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