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Jonathan Aaron is an American poet and author of the poetry collection Journey to the Lost City.

Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Yale University.^[2]

Aaron's work has been published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker,^[3] The New York Review of Books,^[4] The London Review of books,^[5] The Boston Globe,^[6] 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.^[7]

He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[8]

He received the 1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.^[9]

• "The End of Out of the Past", pō’ĭ-trē
• "Acting Like a Tree". The New Yorker. December 15, 2008.
• Aaron, Jonathan (August 16, 1990). "The Voice from Paxos". The New York Review of Books.

• Journey to the Lost City. Ausable Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-931337-30-4. Jonathan Aaron.
• Corridor. Wesleyan University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8195-1203-1.
• Second sight: poems. Harper & Row. 1982. ISBN 978-0-06-014969-7.

• Ann Kjellberg, ed. (2000). Collected poems in English / Joseph Brodsky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-52838-6.

• Harold Bloom, David Lehman, ed. (1998). "Dance Mania". The best of the best American poetry, 1988-1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84779-5.