External links
- Official website
- Poems
- "Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine". University of Iowa Press
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Aaron Belz (born September 27, 1971) is an American writer and poet. [1]
Belz grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri and attended schools including Westminster Christian Academy, the Stony Brook School and Framlingham College [ verification needed ]. He was awarded a Maclellan Foundation Scholarship to attend Covenant College in Georgia in 1990, and graduated with a double major in English and History in 1993. Belz was enrolled in the Creative Writing program at New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. [2] In 2007, he received a Ph.D. in English at Saint Louis University.
In 2003 Belz founded Observable Readings, a poetry series and imprint in St. Louis. [3] [4] Belz published his first book of poetry, The Bird Hoverer, in 2007. [5] He then began teaching English and Creative Writing at Fontbonne University, and later at Saint Louis University, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and Providence Christian College.[ citation needed ] He published a second book, Lovely, Raspberry: Poems, in 2010. [6] In 2013, he received media attention for a Craigslist ad he placed to sell custom poems. [7] [8] [9]
In 2013, Belz performed readings at Comedy Meltdown. [10] That same year he opened up Hillsborough Bicycle, a bicycle repair shop, with his son Eli in Hillsborough, North Carolina. [11] In 2014 Belz was teaching English at Durham Technical Community College in Durham, North Carolina and published his third book, Glitter Bomb: Poems. [12] [13] Belz's poetry has appeared in Fence, Exquisite Corpse, The Atlantic and The Washington Post , and his essays and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal , the San Francisco Chronicle and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch .[ citation needed ]
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