Chard deNiord

Richard Newnham "Chard" deNiord III is an American author, Poet Laureate of Vermont (2015–2019), poet, and teacher.

Chard deNiord is the author of nine poetry collections Asleep in the Fire (U.of Alabama, 1990), Sharp Golden Thorn (U.of Pittsburg, 2003), Night Mowing (U.of Pittsburg, 2005), The Double Truth (U.of Pittsburg, 2011), Speaking In Turn (NOMON Press, 2011) a collaboration with Tony Sanders, Interstate (U.of Pittsburg,2015), In My Unknowing (U.of Pittsburg, 2020), One As Other (Green Writers Press, 2024), and Westminster West (Tupolo Press, 2025). His book Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs (Marick Press, 2011) is a collection of interviews with seven eminent American poets, including Robert Bly, Lucille Clifton, Jack Gilbert, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, and Ruth Stone. His second book of interviews from The University of Pittsburgh Press titled "I Would Lie To You If I Could: Interviews with Ten American Poets" (2018) includes interviews with Natasha Thretheway, Jane Hirshfield, Martin Espada, Steven Kuusisto, Stephen Sandy, Ed Ochester, Carolyn Forche, Peter Everwine, Galway Kinnell and James Wright's widow, Anne Wright. He also has written a book of essays on contemporary poetry, Some Main Things (Mad Hat Press, 2025).