Aaron Poochigian in 2011. Photo by Jasper Jenkins. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Aaron Poochigian (born 1973) is an American poet and translator.[1]
Life[]
Poochigian attented Moorhead State University from 1991 to 1996, studying under Alan Sullivan, 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.[2]
In 2007-2008 he was a visiting professor at the University of Utah, and in 2008-2009 D.L. Jordon Fellow at Roanoke College, Virginia.[1]
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.[2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Cosmic Purr: Poems. San Jose, CA: Able Muse, 2012.
Translated[]
- Sappho, Stung With Love: Sappho’s poems and fragments (with introduction by Carol Ann Duffy). London & New York: Penguin, 2009.
- Aratus, Phaenomena. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Aeschylus, Persians, Seven Against Thebes, & Suppliants. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Apollonius of Rhodes, Jason and the Argonauts (edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes). New York: Penguin, 2014; London: Penguin, 2015.
Aaron Poochigian-Paging Columbus
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Biography, AaronPoochigian.com. Web. Nov. 18, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Aaron Poochigian, Writers Corner, National Endowment for the Arts. Web, Nov. 19, 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:Aaron Poochigian, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Nov. 11, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Aaron Poochigian: Two poems in The Dark Horse
- Aaron Poochigian at the Poetry Foundation
- Aaron Poochigian: Some poems online
- Prose
- Translator's Statement at the National Endowment for the Arts
- Audio / video
- Aaron Poochigian reads "The Maiden" ("Virgo") at Poems out Loud (audio)
- Aaron Poochigian at YouTube
- Books
- Aaron Poochigian at Amazon.com
- About
- Aaron Poochigian poet and translator Official website
- An Interview with Aaron Poochigian at Smartish Pace, 2009.
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