Aaron Poochigian

by George Dance Aaron Poochigian (born 1973) is an American poet and translator.

Life
Poochigian attented Moorhead State University from 1991 to 1996, studying under Tim Murphy and Dave Mason. He entered graduate school for Classics in 1997 at the University of Minnesota, did research in Greece on fellowship in 2003-2004, and received a Ph.D. in 2006. In 2008-2009 he was D.L. Jordon Fellow at Roanoke College.

Penguin Classics released Stung with Love, his translation of Sappho, in the fall of 2009. Johns Hopkins University Press published his translation of The Phaenomena by Aratus in 2010. His translations of Aeschylus, Apollonius and Aratus appear in the Norton Anthology The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. His writing has appeared in such newspapers and journals as The Financial Times, Poems Out Loud, and Poetry.

Poochigian teaches in the Languages Department of the University of Utah. [

Poetry

 * The Cosmic Purr.Able Muse, 2012.

Translations

 * Sappho,  Stung With Love: Sappho’s Poems and Fragments. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Classics, 2009.
 * Aratus, Phaenomena. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
 * Aeschylus, Persians, Seven Against Thebes, & Suppliants. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Anthologized

 * The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. New York: [[W.W. Norton & Company|Norton], 2009.