Jonathan Aaron | |
Caption: | Jonathan Aaron |
Birth Place: | Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Known For: | Books: "Second Sight", "Journey to the Lost City", "The End Out of the Past", "Corridor" |
Occupation: | Poet, teacher, author |
Awards: | Fellowships from Yaddo,[1] 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 |
Jonathan Aaron is an American poet and author of the poetry collection Journey to the Lost City.
Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Yale University.[2]
Aaron's work has been published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker,[3] The New York Review of Books,[4] The London Review of books,[5] The Boston Globe,[6] and The Times Literary Supplement.
Since 1988, Aaron has been an Associate Professor at Emerson College in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. In 2007, he was visiting poet-in-residence at Williams College.[7]
He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[8]
He received the 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.[9]