Jonathan Aaron
Jonathan Aaron | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 84–85) |
| Occupations | Poet, teacher, author |
| Known for | Books: Second Sight, Corridor, Journey to the Lost City, Just About Anything. |
| 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 |
Jonathan Aaron is an American poet and author of four poetry collections: Second Sight Sight, Corridor, Journey to the Lost City, and Just About Anything.
Life and education
[edit | edit source]Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in English from Yale.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]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 Times Literary Supplement, Raritan, and others.
He is professor emeritus of Writing and Literature at Emerson College, where he taught in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing from 1988 to 2015. He previously taught English and Creative Writing at Williams and Yale, and in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Aaron currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2]
Awards
[edit | edit source]Aaron received the 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.[3]
Works
[edit | edit source]Poetry books
[edit | edit source]- Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems. Carnegie Mellon, 2025. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Journey to the Lost City. Ausable Press, 2006. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Corridor. Wesleyan University Press, 1992. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Second sight: poems. Harper & Row, 1982. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Anthologies
[edit | edit source]- The Best American Poetry, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2003.
- Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds, Billy Collins, ed. (2010)
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