Aaron Lopatin | Poet | Teacher | Portfolio

POET // TEACHER

Aaron Lopatin is a poet and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. A finalist for the 2019 Snowbound Chapbook Award from Tupelo Press and semi-finalist for the 2021 Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Factory Hollow Press, his work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Colorado Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Yalobusha Review, Nat. Brut, The Spectacle, and elsewhere.

// PUBLICATIONS

Interim Poetics

Variations in a trapped expanse

Colorado Review

Apartment Poetry

Wren (Invocation), Wren (Convocation), Wren (Revocation)

Whale Road Review

Spoon River Poetry Review

Fragments of a Prayer: III, V, VI

I tend toward smallness

Yalobusha Review

[in which the jackals show their faces], [in which i try to overcome]

Tupelo Quarterly

Fragments of a Prayer: I, II, IV

Charity Vaunteth

The Rolling Gait: a Conversation with Cole Swensen

English Composition I, New York City College of Technology (Adjunct Professor)

2022 - Present

New England Literature Program, University of Michigan (Intermittent Lecturer)

2020 - Present

First Year Writing Seminar, College of Idaho (Adjunct Professor)

2021 - 2022

Intermediate Poetry Writing, Boise State University (Graduate Instructor)

2019 - 2021

Introduction to Poetry Writing, Boise State University (Graduate Instructor)

2018 - 2021

Prison Creative Arts Project, University of Michigan

2014 - 2015

(Semi-Finalist) Verse / Tomaž Šalamun Prize, Factory Hollow Press

(Finalist) Snowbound Chapbook Contest, Tupelo Press

Editor's Choice, Nat. Brut