Helen Chasin

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Helen S. Chasin (19382015) was an American poet. [1]

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Life

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.

Awards

Works

Anthologies

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