Jonathan Aaron

For the American engineer, see John Aaron. For the Finnish singer, see Jonne Aaron.

Jonathan Aaron
Born	1941 (age 82–83) Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)	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. 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.

Life and education

Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and 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, 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.

Personal life

He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Awards

He received the 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.

Works

• "The End of Out of the Past", pō’ĭ-trē
• "Acting Like a Tree". The New Yorker. December 15, 2008.
• Aaron, Jonathan (August 16, 1990). "The Voice from Paxos". The New York Review of Books.

Poetry books

• Journey to the Lost City. Ausable Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-931337-30-4. Jonathan Aaron.
• Corridor. Wesleyan University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8195-1203-1.
• Second sight: poems. Harper & Row. 1982. ISBN 978-0-06-014969-7.

Translation

• Ann Kjellberg, ed. (2000). Collected poems in English / Joseph Brodsky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-52838-6.

Anthology

• Harold Bloom, David Lehman, ed. (1998). "Dance Mania". The best of the best American poetry, 1988-1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84779-5.