Jonathan Aaron

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Jonathan Aaron
Born1941 (age 8384)
Occupation(s) Poet, teacher, author
Known forBooks: Second Sight, Corridor, Journey to the Lost City, Just About Anything.
AwardsFellowships 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 four poetry collections: Second Sight Sight, Corridor, Journey to the Lost City, and Just About Anything.

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Life and education

Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in English from Yale.[1]

Career

Aaron's work has been published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker,[2] The New York Review of Books ,[3]The London Review of books,[4]The Times Literary Supplement, Raritan, and others.

He is professor emeritus of Writing and Literature at Emerson College, where he taught in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing from 1988 to 2015. He previously taught English and Creative Writing at Williams and Yale, and in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard.

Personal life

Aaron currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [2]

Awards

Aaron received the 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. [3]

Works

Poetry books

Anthologies

References