essays, etc.

Uncannily Midwestern | St. Louis Magazine, August 2007

John Vanderslice and St. Vincent at the Billiken Club, May 2, 2007 | Paste Magazine, May 2007

The Ten Jens Reading | Poetry Foundation, April 2007

Unexpected Lines (Scott Lowenbaum feature) | St. Louis Magazine, December 2006

Family Business | St. Louis Magazine, October 2006

Do We Care? Do We Dare? | St. Louis Magazine, September 2006

Time Well Spent | St. Louis Magazine, June 2006

The Five Aarons Reading | Poetry Foundation, February 2006

What is to be done...about schooling? | Comment, September 2005 - V. 24 I. 5

Not a Synod but a Salon | Christian History, Issue 81, Winter 2004

A Leopard Among the Bannas | Christian History, Issue 79, Summer 2003

Missing a Beat: Saying "Kaddish" for Allen Ginsberg | The Riverfront Times

The Rules Have Stayed the Same | Books and Culture (Jan/Feb 2000)

Is This a Great Time or What?  :-) | The Riverfront Times

Spring 2000 teaching journal | Featured at Writenet.org

reviews

Prose Takes Over: New books by McGrath, Notley, Harvey, and Byrne | St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 2, 2008

Eliot's Rebellious Heirs: A review of Adam Kirsch's The Wounded Surgeon | Books and Culture, September/October 2007

Mary Jo Bang's Elegy | St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 30, 2007

Jane O. Wayne's From the Night Album | St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 15, 2007

Troy Jollimore's Tom Thomson in Purgatory | St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 1, 2007

New books by Deborah Garrison, Josephine Dickinson, Carl Dennis, Laurie Sheck, and John Ashbery | St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 1, 2007

Geraldine Kim's Povel | Boston Review, Jan/Feb 2006

Ray McDaniel's Murder (a violet) | Boston Review, Apr/May 2005

The Innocence Mission | Paste, Issue 8, Feb/Mar 2004

Mystic River | Metaphilm.com, Winter 2004

John Ashbery's Chinese Whispers | Boston Review, Oct/Nov 2003

Christian History Corner: The Lord of the Rings: What Harvest? | ChristianityToday.com (Originally published as "Father of Epic Fantasy" in Books and Culture, Spring 2003)

Late for the Sky: Jackson Browne | Paste, Issue 5, Q3.2003

Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned From Steely Dan | Paste, Issue 4, Q2.2003

Planet-Like Music: A Review of Sidney's Apology for Poetry | Comment, Spring 2003

Colleen Carroll's The New Faithful | First Things, November 2002

Standing in the Shadows of Motown | Metaphilm.com, Winter 2002

John Gallaher's Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls | Boston Review, Oct/Nov 2002

Cate Marvin's World's Tallest Disaster | Electronic Poetry Review 4

Y tu mamá también | Metaphilm.com, Summer 2002

Mike Topp's I Used to Be Ashamed of My Striped Face | Jacket 16

Vincent Katz's Understanding Objects | Jacket 16

Tom Shippey's J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century | Books and Culture, Jan/Feb 2002

Jorie Graham's The Errancy | Books and Culture, Mar/Apr 1998

Charles Bukowski's Bone Palace Ballet | Publishers Weekly

Jaime Sabines' Pieces of Shadows | Publishers Weekly

Steven Johnson's Interface Culture | Books and Culture, Nov/Dec 1997

Symbol Pleasures: Jodi.org | The Riverfront Times

The Interface Hackers | Wired 5.07








The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007).
Available through SPD or Amazon.
"Aaron Belz is a gravely hilarious poet. The poems from The Bird Hoverer are part Discovery Channel, part History Channel, part E!—his ferocious intelligence, his love of glitz, and his wry take on relationships (both human and animal) are irresistible. Belz's voice is bold, wise, inimitable." —Denise Duhamel
  →Tony Trigilio, Boston Review
  →Aaron Lowinger, ARTVOICE
  →Katie Lewis, University News
  →Marc Kipniss, Jacket
  →Kristina Marie Darling, Rattle
  →D. B. Timothy, The Bagpipe
  →Adam Fieled
  →Vincent Howard
  →More info at BlazeVOX

Plausible Worlds (Observable, 2005). "Aaron Belz offers us a poetry of exhilaration and exuberance where the self is drowned in a flood of pop cultural referents fading as quickly as a television commercial or a movie trailer. Following William Carlos WilliamsÕs dictum that poetry should be about 'those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose,' Belz fearlessly embraces postmodern phenomena like vacuous celebrity or spam mail." —François Luong
  →François Luong, MiPOesias
  →Ron Silliman
  →More info at Observable

Alex Dickow's French translations of my poems have been published at Sitaudis.com and La Rˇpublique Mondiale des Lettres.

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(more audio at miPOradio).

An interview at Here Comes Everybody.

Direction | Boston Review

Hidden Pulleys on Balcony Four and Work | 52nd City

Two Poems | MiPOesias

Famous Palindrome | McSweeney's

Five Beginnings of Jokes | No Tell Motel

Untranslated | Hutt

Leaf, Lace, and Reinventing the Wheel | The New Pantagruel

Train to Mehlville | Gulf Coast

Three Poems | Jacket

A Horseshoe of Roses | Exquisite Corpse

Pantene | Shampoo

Map Tools | Fine Madness

"Famous Palindrome" translated into Italian: "Un celebre palindromo"