Aaron Belz (born September 27, 1971) is an American writer and poet.
Early life and education Belz grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri and attended schools including Westminster Christian Academy, the Stony Brook School and Framlingham College. He was awarded a Maclellan Foundation Scholarship to attend Covenant College in Georgia in 1990, and graduated with a double major in English and History in 1993. Belz was enrolled in the Creative Writing program at New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 2007, he received a Ph.D. in English at Saint Louis University.
Career
In 2003 Belz founded Observable Readings, a poetry series and imprint in St. Louis. Belz published his first book of poetry, The Bird Hoverer, in 2007. He then began teaching English and Creative Writing at Fontbonne University, and later at Saint Louis University, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and Providence Christian College. He published a second book, Lovely, Raspberry: Poems, in 2010. In 2013, he received media attention for a Craigslist ad he placed to sell custom poems."Aaron Belz Poet for Hire" KDHX.org Archived at the Wayback Machine.
In 2013, Belz performed readings at Comedy Meltdown."Cartographer of Word Galaxies: An Interview with Aaron Belz" The Believer. September 24, 2013. Susan Lerner That same year he opened up Hillsborough Bicycle, a bicycle repair shop, with his son Eli in Hillsborough, North Carolina. In 2014 Belz was teaching English at Durham Technical Community College in Durham, North Carolina and published his third book, Glitter Bomb: Poems. Belz's poetry has appeared in Fence, Exquisite Corpse, The Atlantic and The Washington Post, and his essays and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Bibliography
The Bird Hoverer, BlazeVOX Books, 2007. Lovely, Raspberry: Poems, Persea, 2010. Glitter Bomb: Poems, Persea, 2014. Soft Launch: Poems, Persea, 2019.
References
External links
Official website Poems "Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine". University of Iowa Press