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Jonathan Aaron

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Jonathan Aaron
Born1941 (age 82–83)
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

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

Life and education

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Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Yale University.[2]

Career

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Aaron's work has been published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker,[3] The New York Review of Books,[4] The London Review of books,[5] The Boston Globe,[6] 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.[7]

Personal life

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He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[8]

Awards

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He received the 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.[9]

Works

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  • "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

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Translation

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Anthology

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References

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  1. ^ "Yaddo Artists' Recent Works". Yaddo.org. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  2. ^ "Jonathan Aaron, Emerson College". emerson.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
  3. ^ "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)
  4. ^ "Jonathan Aaron | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  5. ^ "Jonathan Aaron". Lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  6. ^ "Elegy for the Departure - Zbigniew Herbert". Complete-review.com. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  7. ^ "Jonathan Aaron, Emerson College". emerson.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
  8. ^ "Jonathan Aaron | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". Pw.org. 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  9. ^ "Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship Past Recipients".