Jonathan Aaron

Jonathan Aaron is an American poet, the author of the poetry collection Journey to the Lost City.

Jonathan Aaron
Born1941 (age 8283)
Occupation(s)Poet, teacher, author
Known forBooks: "Second Sight", "Journey to the Lost City", "The End Out of the Past", "Corridor"
AwardsFellowships from Yaddo,[1] MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry five times. 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

Life

A graduate of the University of Chicago and Yale University, Aaron's work has been published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker,[2] The New York Review of Books,[3] The London Review of books,[4] The Boston Globe,[5] and The Times Literary Supplement.

Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6] Since 1988, Aaron has been an Associate Professor at Emerson College in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. In 2007, he was visiting poet-in-residence at Williams College.[7]

Awards

He received the 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.

Works

  • "The End of Out of the Past", pō’ĭ-trē
  • "Acting Like a Tree". The New Yorker. December 15, 2008.
  • Aaron, Jonathan (August 16, 1990). "The Voice from Paxos". The New York Review of Books.

Poetry books

Translation

Anthology

  • Harold Bloom, David Lehman, ed. (1998). "Dance Mania". The best of the best American poetry, 1988-1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84779-5.

References

  1. "Yaddo Artists' Recent Works". Yaddo.org. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  2. "Archived copy". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2008-12-17. Retrieved 2009-06-03.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Jonathan Aaron | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  4. "Jonathan Aaron". Lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  5. "Elegy for the Departure - Zbigniew Herbert". Complete-review.com. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  6. "Jonathan Aaron | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". Pw.org. 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  7. "Writing, Literature & Publishing | Emerson College". Emerson.edu. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
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