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.''

Life and education

Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has a B.A. from the

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and a Ph.D. in English from

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Career

Aaron's work has been published in ''The Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''The New Yorker'',^{/sup> ''The New York Review of Books

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'',^{/sup> ''The London Review of books'',^{/sup> ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''Raritan'', and others.

He is professor emeritus of Writing and Literature at Emerson College

Emerson College is a private college in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It also maintains campuses in Los Angeles and Well, Limburg, Netherlands (Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of Public Speaking, o ...
, 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

Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 United States census, ...
.

Awards

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

Works

Poetry books

* Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems. Carnegie Mellon, 2025.
* ''Journey to the Lost City''. Ausable Press, 2006.
* ''Corridor''. Wesleyan University Press, 1992.
* ''Second sight: poems''. Harper & Row, 1982.

Anthologies

* ''The Best American Poetry,'' 1991, 1992, 1998, 2003.
* ''Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds'', Billy Collins, ed. (2010)

References

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Living people
University of Chicago alumni
Emerson College faculty
Poets from Massachusetts
1941 births
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Writers from Northampton, Massachusetts}}}}