Chard deNiord is the author of nine books of poetry: Westminster West (Tupelo Press, 2025), Bestiary, with the artist Brian Cohen (Bridge Press, 2023), In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Speaking in Turn with Tony Sanders (Gnomon Press, 2011), Night Mowing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Sharp Golden Thorn (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), Asleep in the Fire (University of Alabama Press, 1990), as well as three books of interviews with eminent American poets: Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs (Marick Press, 2011), I Would Lie to You if I Could (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), and Learning to Be Everyone and No One (University of Alabama Press, 2025).    

He cofounded the Ruth Stone Foundation with Bianca Stone and her husband, Ben Pease, in 2010, and then served as a trustee of the Ruth Stone Trust and board member of the Ruth Stone Foundation from 2010 to 2021. 

In 2001, along with Jacqueline Gens and Gerald Stern, he cofounded the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College, which he then codirected with Jacqueline Gens until 2008. He retired in the spring of 2020 from teaching English and Creative Writing at Providence College, where he is now Professor Emeritus. 

He is currently the essay editor at Plume, an online poetry magazine, and he serves as a board member of the Sundog Poetry Center in Vermont; he’s also the poetry director of the Bookstock Poetry Festival in Woodstock, Vermont. From 2015 to 2019 he served as Vermont’s Poet Laureate.

With his wife, the artist and ceramist Liz Hawkes deNiord, he lives in Westminster West, Vermont, where he gardens, writes, and poses for his wife’s abstract paintings.

Some Main Things:
Essays on Contemporary American Poetry
is now available from MadHat Press.