Aaron McCollough (USA)
1971
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Aaron McCollough was raised in Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father is an Archeologist and Cartographer. His mother directs a public mental health clinic in rural Georgia.
He earned degrees in English from the University of the South (Sewanee), North Carolina State University, and the University of Michigan. He also obtained an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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His first book Welkin was chosen by Brenda Hillman for the first annual Sawtooth Prize and was published by Ahsahta Press in 2002. Double Venus, was published by Salt Press the following year. Little Ease, his third book, was published by Ashahta Press in 2006.
In 2001 McCollough begin editing the on-line poetry magazine GutGult, which published 8 issues from 2001 to 2010. He currently edits SplitLevel Texts with Karla Kelsey.
Having worked at the University of Michigan Library and University of Michigan Press, McCollough became Scholarly Communications and Publishing Library at the University of Illinois beginning in 2015.
BOOKS OF POETRY
Welkin (Boise, Idaho: Ahsahta Press, 2002); Double Venus (Cambridge, England: Salt Publishers, 2003); Little Ease (Boise, Idaho: Ahsahta Press, 2006); No Grave Can Hold My Body Down (Boise, Idaho: Ahsahta Press, 2011); Underlight (Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012); Rank (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015)
╬Winner of the PIP Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry in English
2005-2006
There It Hurts Me
There where the yellow spot is the finger
Points
There it hurts me
In the hovering house
The form of that thing I’ve fallen in
Or illusions of my doubt
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Legs in the breach
Gently pressing at the perimeter
Between the greeting and the granting of audience
The yellow spot lines converging
At the mark on the door
The confession you are looking for
I have it here
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Reprinted from The New Review of Literature, II, no. 2 (April 2005). Copyright ©2005 by Aaron McCollough.
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