Jonathan Aaron
{{short description|American poet (born 1941)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1941}}
| birth_place = Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
| known_for = Books: Second Sight, Corridor, Journey to the Lost City, Just About Anything.
| occupation = Poet, teacher, author
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| awards = Fellowships from Yaddo,{{cite web |url=http://www.yaddo.org/yaddo/recentworks.asp |title=Yaddo Artists' Recent Works |publisher=Yaddo.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-30 |archive-date=2016-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919073606/http://www.yaddo.org/yaddo/recentworks.asp |url-status=dead }} 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
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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
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
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
Awards
Works
=Poetry books=
- Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems. Carnegie Mellon, 2025. {{ISBN|978-0-88748-713-2}}
- Journey to the Lost City. Ausable Press, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-931337-30-4}}
- Corridor. Wesleyan University Press, 1992. {{ISBN|978-0-8195-1203-1}}
- Second sight: poems. Harper & Row, 1982. {{ISBN|978-0-06-014969-7}}
=Anthologies=
- The Best American Poetry, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2003.
- Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds, Billy Collins, ed. (2010)
References
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Category:University of Chicago alumni
Category:Emerson College faculty
Category:Poets from Massachusetts