Jonathan Aaron is an American poet, the author of the poetry collection Journey to the Lost City.
Jonathan Aaron | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 82–83) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, teacher, author |
| Known for | Books: "Second Sight", "Journey to the Lost City", "The End Out of the Past", "Corridor" |
| Awards | Fellowships 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
editA 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
editHe received the 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.[citation needed]
Works
edit- "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
edit- Journey to the Lost City. Ausable Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-931337-30-4.
Jonathan Aaron.
- Corridor. Wesleyan University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8195-1203-1.
- Second sight: poems. Harper & Row. 1982. ISBN 978-0-06-014969-7.
Translation
edit- Ann Kjellberg, ed. (2000). Collected poems in English / Joseph Brodsky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-52838-6.
Anthology
edit- 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
edit- ^ "Yaddo Artists' Recent Works". Yaddo.org. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- ^ "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) - ^ "Jonathan Aaron | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- ^ "Jonathan Aaron". Lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- ^ "Elegy for the Departure - Zbigniew Herbert". Complete-review.com. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- ^ "Jonathan Aaron | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". Pw.org. 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- ^ "Writing, Literature & Publishing | Emerson College". Emerson.edu. Retrieved 2013-04-30.