Aaron Anstett: Pikes Peak Poet Laureate (April 2008 – March 2010)
Aaron Anstett
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Brief Biography of the Aaron Anstett
Aaron Anstett was born in Chicago and has lived in Colorado Springs for slightly over a decade. Anstett is a long-time supporter of poetry in the Pikes Peak region and beyond, having organized and hosted a number of benefit, open-mike, and National Poetry Month readings; judged local and national writing contests; overseen chapbook contests; served on several boards; been the lowest-scoring member on a local poetry slam team; corralled poems for The Independent; and taught. He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he held a Teaching-Writing Fellowship, and he was later the Halls Poetry Fellow at the UW-Madison Center for Creative Writing. Anstett's poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies and on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. His books are Sustenance, No Accident, and Each Place the Body's. Recent awards and recognition include Pushcart Prize Nominations, the Backwaters Press Prize, the Nebraska Book Award, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. His children are Molly, Cooper, and Rachel, and his betrothed is Lesley. Aaron is employed full-time as a technical writer.
Publications by Aaron Anstett
Books
Each Place the Body’s, Ghost Road Press, Denver, CO, 2007
No Accident, Backwaters Press, Omaha, NE, 2005
Sustenance, New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1997Journals
“Red Star Shells.” Many Mountains Moving (2008)
“Atoms in their Orbits” and “Belongings.” Court Green (2007)
“Indeed I Was.” Redactions (2007)
“Tabernacle.” Backwards City Review (2007)
“Appetite,” “Each Day,” “Now We Must.” Thieves Jargon (2007)
“Country.” the minnesota review (2007)
“Against the Filibuster Wind,” “And So,” “Lyric.” CAB/NET Magazine (2007)
“Fortune,” “Imperial.” Unloved Mail-Order Bride (2007)
“Self-Portrait in Corporate Offices,” “Who Brings a Picnic to a Knife Fight?.” Absent (2007)
“Burglars.” 21 Stars Review (2006)
“Naked.” Pebble Lake Review (2006)
“Hotel Ivan Albright,” “Out of Body,” “Prayer for Recompense,” “Storefronts.” Dusie (2006)
“Seeing Far.” Copper Nickel (2006)
“Another,” “License,” “Questioning,” “XYZ.” Word For/Word (2006)
“Homelessness,” “More,” “Parking.” Dispatx (2005)
“Needling.” Cranky (2005)
“Satellites.” The New Hampshire Review (2005)
“$500,000 Policy,” “And Then,” “If I Had Another Face,” “My Sentimental Education,” “Shanty.” No Tell Motel (2005)
“Answer.” Black Warrior Review (2004)
“History.” American Letters & Commentary (2004)
“Prayer Against Dying on Camera.” Slant (2004)
“Scenes.” Softblow (2004)
“God's Job,” “Poem for a Public Bus Placard,” and “Stricken.” Three Candles (2004)
“Ardor,” “Exactitude,” “Pastoral,” “Prayer for Safe Travel,” and “Zap.” Maverick Magazine (2004)
“Holes in the Story.” Copper Nickel (2004)
“Redolence.” Flint Hills Review (2003)
“Heaviness.” Lilliput Review (2003)
“Ask Anyone” and “Bees.” Poetry Midwest (2003)
“Alias.” Tampa Review (2002)
“Winter.” Tattoo Highway (2002).
“Matter.” Artful Dodge (2001)
“Story Problems.” River City(2001)
“Barley.” Green Mountains Review (2000)
“Good Morning.” Indiana Review (1999)
“Gulf Coast.” Quarterly West (1999)
“Trouble.” River Styx (1999)
“Grammar.” Literal Latte (1998)
“Matter.” Artful Dodge (1998)
“Afterlife” and “Decorative.” The Ohio Review (1998)
“Every Step a Trespass” and “Suicide With a Starter’s Pistol.” Salt Hill (1998)
“Heaven,” “Lay My Burden Down,” and “Open Beer Stores, Running Buses, Marigolds Small Miracles on Police Station Lawns.” Blue Moon Review (1997)
“This Street, Any Street” and “Worry.” Poetry East (1997)
“Tracks.” Green Mountains Review (1996)
“Grill” and “Travel.” Fine Madness (1996)
“Cusp,” “Evenings Full of Forfeiture,” “Measure of Revenge,” and “Physics.” Jeopardy (1996)
“Why Skylines.” River Styx (1996)
“One Small Angel” and “Over the Transom.” Interim (1996)
“Menace.” Asylum (1995)
“This Town.” The Ohio Review (1995)
“Tell Me” and “Waxwing, Warbler, Scythebill.” Sycamore Review (1995)
“By the Bay Door.” Tampa Review (1995)
“House With No Chimney, Windows Full of Smoke” and “Cheap Drinks, Loads of Talent.” Zone 3 (1995)
“The Ticket Taker Speaks.” Black Warrior Review (1994)
“Empire.” Fine Madness (1994)
“A Possible Reprieve” and “Sustenance.” Poetry East (1994)
“Big World Full of Uneasy Sleepers.” The Cream City Review (1994)
“Pharmacy” and “Stagger.” Puerto Del Sol (1994)
“Five Definitions.” Painted Bride Quarterly (1994)
“Your House Is a Goner.” Fine Madness (1993)
“1937.” Mudfish (1993)
“Claw,” “Running the Stunt Over,” and “Slow Learners.” Shenandoah (1993)
“Blur of Atoms.” Sonora Review (1993)
“Starts Out a Mouse.” Pearl (1993)Anthologies and Textbooks
“$500,000 Policy, “Answer,” “God's Job,” “Grammar,” “Gulf Coast,” “Matter,” “Prayer Against Dying on Camera,” “Satellites,” “Tattoo Errata,” “Trouble” in Digerati: 20 Poets in the Virtual World. Three Candles Press, 2006.
“Proposition” and “Undressed.” Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. No Tell Motel Press, 2005.