Jonathan Aaron

Jonathan Aaron (born 1941) is an American poet.

Jonathan Aaron. Courtesy PoemHunter.

Jonathan Aaron
Born	1941 Northampton, Massachusetts
Nationality	United States
Occupation	Poet, Teacher, Author
Known for	Books: "Second Sight", "Journey to the Lost City", "The End Out of the Past", "Corridor"
Awards	Fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Endowment for the Arts. 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

Life

Youth and education

Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts.

He graduated from the University of Chicago, then earned a Ph.D. from Yale University.

Career

Aaron's 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 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 the Best American Poetry series 5 times: in 1991, 1992, 1998, and 2003, and in The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997, 2003.
• 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

Publications

Poetry

• Second Sight: Poems (edited by Anthony Hecht). New York: Harper, 1982.
• Corridor. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press / Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1992.
• Journey to the Lost City. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2006.

Translated

• Joseph Brodsky, Collected Poems, in English (with others; edited by Ann Kjellberg). New York: Farrar, Straus, 2000; Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 2001.

Anthologized

• The Best American Poetry, 1992 (edited by Charles Simic & David Lehman). New York: Scribner, 1992.
• The Best American Poetry, 1993 (edited by Yusef Komunyakaa & David Lehma). New York: Scribner, 1993.

One Minute Seder Made by Rabbi Jonathan Aaron

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

External links

Poems

• "The End of Out of the Past" at pō’ĭ-trē
• Jonathan Aaron at the Academy of American Poets ("Skills")
• "Acting Like a Tree". The New Yorker. December 15, 2008. http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/12/15/081215po_poem_aaron. 
• "The Voice from Paxos". The New York Review of Books. August 16, 1990. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/3524. 
• Jonathan Aaron at PoemHunter (5 poems)

About

• Jonathan Aaron at Poets & Writers