Jonathan Aldrich

Jonathan Aldrich (born 1936) is an American poet. He is the author of eight collections of poetry and several chapbooks.

Biography

Born in Boston, Aldrich was educated at Exeter; Harvard College, where he won the Academy of American Poets Prize; and the Bread Loaf School of English, where he was a Robert Frost Scholar.[1] He is the elder son of Bailey Aldrich, who was a United States federal judge for more than 48 years. Jonathan Aldrich taught at Berea College, Kentucky, and (for 25 years) at the Maine College of Art.

Jonathan Aldrich grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and spent every August at the home of his grandparents in Tenants Harbor, Maine.[2] His memories of his summers there form the basis for his poetic sequence Foam (2012). Aldrich's first book, Croquet Lover at the Dinner Table (1977), was selected for the annual poetry award in the Breakthrough Books competition at the University of Missouri Press. The series published first books of poetry and fiction.[3] His book-length poetic sequence Wade's Wait was the first single-author chapbook published by the Beloit Poetry Journal. It appeared as Chapbook 18 in Fall 1985.

Aldrich is married to poet Nancy Aldrich. They have two children, Tom and Tess. Tom Aldrich is a composer.

Bibliography

Poetry
  • Croquet Lover at the Dinner Table (University of Missouri Press 1977)
  • Wade's Wait: A Narrative Poem (The Beloit Poetry Journal Chapbook 18, Fall 1985)
  • Sonnets for Grimm (Wolfe Editions 2000)
  • Figures (Wolfe Editions 2000)
  • The Ring Road (Limerock Books 2007)
  • Family Romance (with etchings by Alison Hildreth) (Wolfe Editions 2009)
  • The Storks of Edam (Bakery Studios 2010)
  • Foam: A Poetic Sequence (2012)
  • Injury (2013)
  • Out of St. Orange (2015)

Translation
  • The Death of Michelangelo (Puckerbrush Press, 1985)
  • Le Voyage (translation of Charles Baudelaire; with drawings by Alison Hildreth) (Wolfe Editions, 1998)

Anthologies
  • Summer Lines: A Decade of Tenants Harbor Poetry Readings, Christopher Fahy, editor (Limerock Books 2006) ISBN 978-0-974-65892-6
  • Branching Out (Limerock Books 2011) ISBN 978-0-974-65896-4
  • Routes: 20 Years of Tenants Harbor Poetry Readings (Limerock Books 2016) ISBN 978-0-974-65899-5

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-13. Retrieved 2015-06-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Wallace, Ronald (1989). Vital Signs: An Anthology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 211–212.
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