Aaron Coleman

Aaron Coleman is from Metro-Detroit, a Fulbright Scholar, and a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Psychology. Aaron has lived and taught poetry in locations including Kalamazoo, Chicago, Spain, and South Africa. He is currently a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis.

The mind in night spreads out like fireflies – impatient lilting over flooding water, nowhere to […]

To whom – to what – do I belong by ...

February 14, 2018 in Editors' Selections tagged Aaron Coleman by Kristina Marie Darling

Who is not callous, not cattle moving in sequence, a cataract of time, of blue-grained lusciousness […]

St. Who by Aaron Coleman

February 14, 2018 in Editors' Selections tagged Aaron Coleman by Kristina Marie Darling

Nonfiction writer John McPhee devises a graphic symbol to represent the structure of every piece he […]

An Introduction to Aaron Coleman by Cassandra Cleghorn

February 14, 2018 in Editors' Selections tagged Aaron Coleman / Cassandra Cleghorn by Kristina Marie Darling

We were born in here. With this kindling I hold, dry crumble from the wind of […]

The Great Dismal Swamp by Aaron Coleman

February 14, 2018 in Editors' Selections tagged Aaron Coleman by Kristina Marie Darling

after A. Van Jordan through (→) prep. 1. In one […]

Through by Aaron Coleman

October 14, 2014 in Poetry / TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged Aaron Coleman by Marlee Gaffey

Being tornado, being wind-stuck, Being swamp-swallowed and forgotten, being Gangster-gone-ghost. Being leaking And prohibited. Being rugged Smirk […]

St. Inside & Not by Aaron Coleman

October 14, 2014 in Poetry / TQ5 Poetry Contest tagged Aaron Coleman by Marlee Gaffey