Dan Chiasson’s latest book of poetry, Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon, is out in paperback. He teaches at Wellesley. (July 2013)
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The Muse Makes Mischief
June 6, 2013
Red Doc>
by Anne Carson
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Leonard Cohen’s Holy Dove
April 25, 2013
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The ‘Stoned Gallantry’ of Leonard Cohen
February 21, 2013
I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
by Sylvie Simmons
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The Actual Hawk, the Real Tree
September 27, 2012
Place
by Jorie Graham
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A Wild Ride Through America
January 12, 2012
Selected Poems
by Robert Pinsky
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‘Heavenly Questions’
July 14, 2011
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Consolations
June 9, 2011
Heavenly Questions
by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Ghost in a Red Hat
by Rosanna Warren
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High on the Stones
March 10, 2011
Life
by Keith Richards, with James Fox
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Don’t Give Rock a Bad Rap
March 10, 2011
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‘Rude Ludicrous Lucrative’ Rap
January 13, 2011
The Anthology of Rap
edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and afterwords by Chuck D and Common
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It Could Be Done
December 23, 2010
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The Poet of Happiness
December 9, 2010
The Dance Most of All
by Jack Gilbert
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The Unfolding Elegy
October 14, 2010
Nox
by Anne Carson
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‘A Hat off a Yacht…’
May 27, 2010
Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems
by James Schuyler, edited by James Meetze and Simon Pettet
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The Power of Lydia Davis
May 27, 2010
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Horse Sense & Heartache
April 29, 2010
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
by Lydia Davis
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The Invented World of Wallace Stevens
November 19, 2009
Selected Poems
by Wallace Stevens, edited by John N. Serio
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The Glee of Contempt
July 16, 2009
Poems, 1959–2009
by Frederick Seidel
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John Ashbery: ‘Look, Gesture, Hearsay’
April 9, 2009
John Ashbery: Collected Poems, 1956–1987
edited by Mark Ford
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'A Vanguard of Friends'
February 26, 2011
Tibor de Nagy, the iconic midtown gallery, has been celebrating its sixtieth anniversary with a show that doesn’t so much trace its history as distill its early essence. “Painters & Poets” includes drawings, chapbooks, letters and well-known paintings that emerged from the fantastic collaborations between Frank O’Hara and Larry Rivers, O’Hara and Joe Brainard, Brainard and John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Grace Hartigan, among many others.
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The Playful, Grumpy, Over-Literate, Fixated, Flummoxed Brain of Stephin Merritt
November 17, 2010
The Magnetic Fields is the name Stephin Merritt calls the band he often plays with, when he isn’t playing alone or with several other bands he invented. The core group is Merritt and his old friend Claudia Gonson.
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Dan Chiasson on Lydia Davis
May 19, 2010
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Dan Chiasson on John Ashbery
March 30, 2009