Aaron Fogel

Aaron Fogel
Born	(1947-01-12)January 12, 1947 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	(2024-11-06)November 6, 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Poet and academic
Alma mater	Columbia College
Subject	Poetry
Notable awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1987)

Aaron Moses Fogel was an American poet and academic.

Life

Raised in New York City, he attended Columbia University (BA) and Cambridge University (BA/MA), before returning to Columbia University, from which he earned a Ph.D.

Fogel was a member of the English faculty at Boston University from 1978 until 2018, when he retired as Associate Professor Emeritus.

His work appeared in AGNI, American Poet, Boulevard, Matrix, No, Pequod, The Stud Duck, and elsewhere.

Awards

• 2005 Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching
• 2001 Kahn Award for 'The Printer's Error
• 1987-88 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1967-69 Kellett Fellowship

Works

• "People", poets.org
• "Shore Container", poets.org
• "The Goat", poets.org
• "The Man Who Never Heard of Frank Sinatra", poets.org
• "The Riddle of Flat Circles [excerpt]", poets.org
• "Cobblestones", Octopus

Reviews

A couple of years ago--would it have been 1995 or ‘96?--carelessly flipping through The Best American Poetry, 1995 (an anthology that, to its editor, Richard Howard’s credit, was full of poets a lot of people hadn't heard of) I was stopped dead in my tracks by a truly wondrous poem: "The Printer’s Error" by Aaron Fogel. It was deceptively simple, direct, moving and thoroughly astounding, full of political, religious and cultural truth. Who (I asked myself and everyone else who might conceivably know) was this Aaron Fogel?