Chard deNiord

Chard deNiord is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Westminster West (forthcoming on May 15, 2025), One As Other (Green Writers Press, 2024), and In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020). He is also the author of two books of interviews with American poets titled Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, Conversations and Reflections on 20 th Century Poetry (Marick Press, 2011) and I Would Lie To You If I Could (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in numerous poetry anthologies and literary journals, including The Paris Review, Poetry, APR, The Kenyon Review and others. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College where he taught for twenty-two years. He serves as the essay editor for Plume Poetry. From 2015 to 2019 he served as Poet Laureate of Vermont. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont with his wife, Liz.