Aaron Fogel

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Aaron Fogel (born 1947) is an American poet and academic.

Aaron Fogel. Courtesy Boston University.

Life

Youth and education

Fogel was born and raised in New York City.

He earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Cambridge.

Career

Fogel is an associate professor at Boston University.

His work has appeared in AGNI, American Poet, Boulevard, Matrix, No, Pequod, and The Stud Duck.

Writing

Jacqueline Osherow: "A couple of years ago – would it have been 1995 or ‘96? – carelessly flipping through The Best American Poetry, 1995 (an anthology that, to its editor, Richard Howard’s credit, was full of poets a lot of people hadn’t heard of) I was stopped dead in my tracks by a truly wondrous poem: "The Printer’s Error" by Aaron Fogel. It was deceptively simple, direct, moving and thoroughly astounding, full of political, religious and cultural truth. Who (I asked myself and everyone else who might conceivably know) was this Aaron Fogel?"

Recognition

Billy Collins included Fogel's poem, "The Printer's Error," in his anthology Poetry 180.

Awards

• Kahn Award for The Printer’s Error (2001)
• Guggenheim Fellow (1987–8)
• Kellett Fellowship (1967–9)
• Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching (2005)

Except where noted, award information courtesy Boston University.

Publications

Poetry

• Chain Hearings. New York: Inwood Press, 1976. IBN 978-0-8180-1530-4
• The Printer's Error. Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-1-881163-35-0

Non-fiction

• Coercion to Speak: Conrad's poetics of dialogue. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-674-13639-7

  

  P180-36-The Printer's Error - Aaron Fogel

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

External links

Poems

• "The Printer's Error" at Poetry 180
• Aaron Fogel 5 poems at the Academy of American Poets

Books

• Aaron Fogel at Amazon.com