Jonathan Aldrich


Jonathan Aldrich 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. 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 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. His memories of his summers there form the basis for his poetic sequence Foam. Aldrich's first book, Croquet Lover at the Dinner Table, 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. 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.

Poetry