Aaron Anstett: Pikes Peak Poet Laureate (April 2008 – March 2010)
Aaron Anstett
To Contact Aaron Anstett
To contact Aaron send an e-mail to poet@pikespeakpoetlaureate.org or send a letter addressed to:
Aaron Anstett – Poet Laureate
c/o COPPeR
P.O. Box 190
Colorado Springs, CO 80901
Brief Biography of 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 wife is Lesley. Aaron is employed full-time as a technical writer.