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Danielle Chapman is a poet, essayist, and lecturer in English at Yale University, where she teaches Shakespeare and creative writing. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Poetry International and elsewhere, and her essays in The Oxford American and Commonweal. Her first collection of poems, Delinquent Palaces (Northwestern University Press), was published in 2015.
Danielle will publish her memoir, Holler: A Poet Among Patriots with Unbound Edition Press in October 2023 and her second poetry collection, Boxed Juice, in 2024. Both works confront the fragility of life, the rupture of death, and the moral reckoning a search for meaning requires.
She lives in Hamden, CT with her husband, Christian Wiman, and their twin daughters.
On some days, the only song worth singing is one of how to love well. Here, Chapman gives you that in a musically rich abundance that could be called Auden or Funkadelic: you can live these lines.
[In Boxed Juice] Chapman channels an electrifying vehemence, a profound insistence on survival....Taut, thrumming, frank, and delving, Chapman’s poems reflect days and nights hung in the balance of fear and hope, medicine and faith.
Boxed Juice is something rare, an original vision of being … that makes Danielle Chapman so important to poetry right now.
The poems [in Boxed Juice] are strikingly precise, their beautiful deployments of image and perception powerfully constrained …
Holler traces out the strands of self, place and history that bind us to any past we claim or disclaim …
… a magical and rare species of a book.
With blazing lyric intensity … Chapman’s story builds to a conclusion of mythic power … An astonishment. A lesson in being human.
A beautiful memoir … as devastating as American history itself … Few can write prose as musical and precise … Holler is a stunning book.
