Dan Chiasson (; born May 9, 1971 in Burlington, Vermont) is an American poet, critic, and journalist.
The Sewanee Review called Chiasson "the country’s most visible poet-critic." He is the Lorraine C.
Wang Professor of English Literature at Wellesley College.
Chiasson is the author of six books: The Afterlife of Objects (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Natural History (Alfred A.
Knopf, 2005), One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Where's the Moon, There's the Moon (Alfred A.