Aaron Fogel

Aaron Fogel
Born	(1947-01-12)January 12, 1947 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	(2024-11-06)November 6, 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Poet and academic
Alma mater	Columbia College
Subject	Poetry
Notable awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1987)

Aaron Moses Fogel was an American poet and academic.

Life

Raised in New York City, ^[1] he attended Columbia University (BA) and Cambridge University (BA/MA), before returning to Columbia University, from which he earned a Ph.D.

Fogel was a member of the English faculty at Boston University from 1978 until 2018, when he retired as Associate Professor Emeritus. ^[2]

His work appeared in AGNI, ^[3] American Poet, Boulevard, Matrix, No, Pequod, The Stud Duck, and elsewhere.

Awards

• 2005 Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching
• 2001 Kahn Award for 'The Printer's Error ^[4]
• 1987-88 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1967-69 Kellett Fellowship

Works

• "People", poets.org
• "Shore Container", poets.org
• "The Goat", poets.org
• "The Man Who Never Heard of Frank Sinatra", poets.org
• "The Riddle of Flat Circles [excerpt]", poets.org
• "Cobblestones", Octopus
• The printer's error. Miami University Press. 2001. ISBN   978-1-881163-35-0.
• Chain hearings. Inwood Press. 1976. ISBN   978-0-8180-1530-4.

Criticism

• Coercion to speak: Conrad's poetics of dialogue. Harvard University Press. 1985. ISBN   978-0-674-13639-7.

Anthologies

• David Lehman, ed. (2006). The Oxford book of American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-516251-6.
• Billy Collins, ed. (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN   978-0-8129-6887-3.
• Harold Bloom; David Lehman, eds. (1998). The best of the best American poetry, 1988-1997. Scribner. ISBN   978-0-684-84279-0.
• Lyn Hejinian; David Lehman, eds. (2004). "3337,000, December, 2000". The best American poetry, 2004. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   978-0-7432-5757-2.

Reviews

A couple of years ago--would it have been 1995 or ‘96?--carelessly flipping through The Best American Poetry, 1995 (an anthology that, to its editor, Richard Howard’s credit, was full of poets a lot of people hadn't heard of) I was stopped dead in my tracks by a truly wondrous poem: "The Printer’s Error" by Aaron Fogel. It was deceptively simple, direct, moving and thoroughly astounding, full of political, religious and cultural truth. Who (I asked myself and everyone else who might conceivably know) was this Aaron Fogel? ^[5]

References

1. "Aaron Fogel".
2. "Faculty: Aaron Fogel". Boston University English Department. Archived from the original on 2009-01-20. Retrieved 2009-08-24.
3. "AGNI Online: Author Aaron Fogel". web.bu.edu. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
4. "Aaron Fogel wins 2001 Kahn Award for The Printer's Error". The BU Bridge. 8 June 2001.
5. ""Emerging Poet: On Aaron Fogel", poets.org, Jacqueline Osherow". Archived from the original on 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2009-08-24.