Jonathan Aaron

Jonathan Aaron is an American poet.

Life
Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Chicago, then earned a Ph.D. from Yale University.

His 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 (as guest reviewer), and The Times Literary Supplement.

He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1988, Mr. Aaron has been an Associate Professor at Emerson College in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. In Fall of 2007, Mr. Aaron was visiting poet-in-residence at Williams College.

Writing
Boston Review: "'Dreaming is after all a kind of thinking,' Jonathan Aaron writes in this new volume, his third in almost 25 years, and it’s hard to imagine a more succinct statement of his poetic method. Aaron has always used the peculiar instability of poems to his advantage: he builds tension from a poem’s ability to slip on no more than a phrase from the real to the symbolic, from the hypothetical to the unalterable."

Recognition

 * His work has received many honors, including 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