Aaron Fogel
Encyclopedia
Life
He was raised in New York CityNew York City
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.
He graduated from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, Cambridge University, and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, with a Ph.D.,
Fogel has been on the faculty at Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
since 1978.
His work has appeared in AGNI, American Poet, Boulevard, Matrix, No, Pequod, The Stud Duck.
Awards
- 2001 Kahn Award for The Printer's Error
- 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
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 HowardRichard HowardRichard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...
’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?