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Aaron Poochigian

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Aaron Poochigian

Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota in 2006 and is completing an MFA in Poetry at Columbia University. His book of translations from Sappho, Stung With Love, was published by Penguin Classics in 2009, and his translation of Apollonius’ Jason and the Argonauts was released October 2014....

For his work in translation he was awarded a 2010-2011 Grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. His first book of original poetry, The Cosmic Purr (Able Muse Press) was published in March of 2012, and several of the poems in it collectively won the New England Poetry Club’s Daniel Varoujan Prize. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, Poems Out Loud, and POETRY.

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Articles by Aaron Poochigian

Etching of Aeneas and Dido by François Forster
Dido en Aeneas, François Forster, after Pierre Narcisse Guérin, 1828, Rijksmuseum