Background

Chard DeNiord was born on December 17, 1952, in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. He is the son of Richard Newnham deNiord and Nancy Petty.

Education

Chard earned a BA in religious studies from Lynchburg College, a Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Career

Chard deNiord began his career as chair of the comparative religions and philosophy department at Putney School, Vermont in 1989. Ten years later he transfered to Providence College, Rhode Island, where he took the position of associate professor of English department. Currently he is professor at Providence College and lives in Putney, Vermont.

DeNiord is also a co-founder of the New England College MFA program in poetry, and with Tom Lux and Jacqueline Gens he co-founded the Spirit and the Letter Workshop, a ten-day program of workshops and lectures in Patzquaro, Mexico. He has been a Poetry Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Allan Collins Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

DeNiord is the author of the poetry collections Asleep in the Fire (1990), Sharp Golden Thorn (2003), Night Mowing (2005), and The Double Truth (2011). His book Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs (2011) is a collection of interviews with American poets, including Robert Bly, Lucille Clifton, Jack Gilbert, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, and Ruth Stone.

Achievements

• Chard deNiord is famous for his poems, which have been included in the anthologies Pushcart Prize XXII (1998), Best American Poetry (1999), Best of the Prose Poem (2000), American Religious Poems (2006), and American Poetry Now (2007). In late 2015, he was named Poet Laureate of Vermont.

Works

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  • The Double Truth

    (The Double Truth is a collection of poems that arc from m...)

    2011
  • Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs

    (This book of interviews with seven senior American poets—...)

    2011
  • Sharp Golden Thorn

    (In this follow-up to the award-winning collection Asleep ...)

    2003
  • Night Mowing

    (The poems in Night Mowing find their influence in the nat...)

    2005
  • Interstate

    (Interstate is a collection of lyrical poems in four secti...)

    2015
  • Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry

    (With its mystical landscape and fiercely self-reliant cit...)

    2018
  • I Would Lie to You if I Could

    (I Would Lie To You If I Could contains interviews with ni...)

    2018
  • Asleep in the Fire 1990

Membership

DeNiord is a member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.

Interests

• Gardening, carpentry

Connections

Chard deNiord married Elizabeth Hawkes. They have two children: Soren and Rayna Guiler.

Father:

Richard Newnham deNiord

Mother:

Nancy Petty deNiord

Spouse:

Elizabeth Hawkes deNiord

Son:

Soren deNiord

Daughter:

Rayna Guiler deNiord

References

• Contemporary Authors A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields
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