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

Poetry books

Translation

Anthology