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| Jonathan Aaron | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1941 (age 82–83) Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 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, 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 the poetry collection Journey to the Lost City.
Life and education
Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Yale University.
Career
Aaron's work has been published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of books, The Boston Globe, and The Times Literary Supplement.
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.
Personal life
He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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
- Journey to the Lost City. Ausable Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-931337-30-4.
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- Corridor. Wesleyan University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8195-1203-1.
- Second sight: poems. Harper & Row. 1982. ISBN 978-0-06-014969-7.
Translation
- Ann Kjellberg, ed. (2000). Collected poems in English / Joseph Brodsky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-52838-6.
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
- "Yaddo Artists' Recent Works". Yaddo.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- "Jonathan Aaron, Emerson College". emerson.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
- "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, Emerson College". emerson.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
- "Jonathan Aaron | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". Pw.org. 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- "Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship Past Recipients".