Forgotten Ground Regained
Aaron Poochigian has a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He has published several poetry collections (American Divine, winner of the Richard Wilbur award, Manhattanite, and The Cosmic) and has published in various literary journals, including Poetry and The Paris Review. He has written a number of alliterative poems; for instance, his poem Talking Trey Down, (Better Than Starbucks, 2019) begins with a stanza in alliterative verse.
In his recent novels-in-verse, Mister Either/Or (excerpt here) and Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage (excerpt here), both reprinted in Issue 1, Poochigian alternates between sections written in heroic couplets and sections written in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter. He also integrates alliterative verse in other poems he has written, such as this poem from American Divine, Talking Trey Down.
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