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Roger Aplon, Poet

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Roger Aplon, Poet
BornChicago, Illinois
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
💼 Occupation
Poet, author
Notable workBarceona Diary, The Man with His Back to the Room, Mustering What's Left - Selected & New Poems 1976 - 2017
🌐 Websitehttp://www.rogeraplon.com

Roger Aplon is an American poet, author and publisher living and working in Beacon, New York.

Biography[edit]

Roger Aplon.[1] was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised on the southeast side near Lake Michigan and Jackson Park. He attended Hyde Park High School, a multi-ethnic school in the Woodlawn neighborhood of the south side. Having no siblings, his early memories were of summers swimming in Lake Michigan near the small lakeside town of Glenn, Michigan. Eventually moving apart from his family, Aplon spent his early adult years listening to legendary jazz artists perform in the Chicago clubs: Herbie Mann at the Stage Lounge, The Jazz Messengers at the Crown Propeller on Sixty-Third, Miles Davis at the Southerland Hotel, John Coltrane at McKee's on Cottage Grove, and Billie Holiday at the Blue Note in 'The Loop'. He attended the University of Illinois-Urbana and the University of Chicago and began writing poetry. (Aplon also attended Roosevelt University in 1960s, completing his Bachelor of Arts degree twenty-five years later.) Aplon co-founded CHOICE Magazine[2] with the celebrated photographer, Aaron Siskind[3][4] and the poet, John Logan[5][6]. During this time, he married his first wife, Judith and soon after, his son Jason was born.

Aplon eventually divorced his first wife and moved to San Francisco, where he spent eighteen years. There he published his works Stiletto and By Dawn's Early Light at 120 Miles Per Hour. After his father died, Aplon moved to San Diego to care for mother. There he married his second wife, Ellen. His work, It's Mother's Day, was published in 1996.

Aplon moved to Barcelona, Spain and in 1998, his work Barcelona Diary (Spain, 2000 - US, 2001) was published. A bilingual collection, (English/Catalan), the volume of 178 'Entries' includes poems and prose poems written over a period of two years while in Barcelona. He returned to the US in 2000, was in widowed 2001, and scattered his mother's ashes. Aplon revisited Barcelona in 2003-08, and his works The Man With His Back To The Room Poems 2000-2005 and Intimacies Prose Poems & Stories were published. During the years 2007-08 three 'chapbooks:' were published: After Goya: Disasters of War, Escapades and Improvisations. By 2008 Aplon returned to San Diego to teach and write.

In 2009 Aplon was awarded a two-month fellowship, (Summer, 2009), to The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation[7], an artist colony in Taos, New Mexico. In August, 2011, he moved to the Hudson Valley (Beacon, New York). Recently published works include It's Only TV - Poems 2005-2011, Improvisations - Poetic Impressions From Contemporary Music (the Book), inspired by musical ‘experiments’ by composers such as John Adams, Elliot Carter, Miles Davis and John Zorn and Mustering What's Left - Selected & New Poems 1976 - 2017 released by Unsolicited Press, May 2018.

Aplon edits and publishes Waymark – Voices of the Valley[8] , a quartely poetry magazine. He continues to write and frequently appears publicly for readings[9][10]. .

Selected Works[edit]

Note: Poems from the "Selected Works" volumes listed below are available in spoken word and text in the "Bookshelf" section of the poets's website.[11]. Reviews about Roger Aplon's poetry (by various authors) appear under the "Reviews" section of the poets's website[12]

  • Barcelona Diary (Spanish Edition, 2000, American Edition, 2001)
  • It's Mother's Day (1996)
  • By Dawn's Early Light at 120 Miles Per Hour (1983)
  • Stiletto (1976)
  • The Man With His Back To The Room: Selected Poems 2000-2005 (2006)
  • Intimacies, Prose. Poems and Stories (2006)
  • Homage to a Widow (2008)
  • It's Only TV (2012)
  • Improvisations - Chapbook (2007)
  • After Goya (2007)
  • Escapades (2007)
  • Improvisations - From Contemporary Music (2016)
  • Mustering What's Left: Selected & New Poems - 1976-2017 (2018)

References[edit]


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  1. "Official website". Roger Aplon. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  2. "CHOICE 1: Aaron Siskind and His Critics 1946-1966". University of Arizona, Tucson. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  3. Grundberg, Andy (February 9, 1991). "Aaron Siskind, a Photographer Of Abstract Images, Dies at 85". New York Times. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  4. "Aaron Siskind and Max Yavno Archives". ,University of Arizona, Tucson. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  5. Editor, Obituaries (November 10, 1987). "John Logan Dies at 64; A Prize-Winning Poet". New York Times. Retrieved July 2, 2018.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
  6. Logan, John (1989). "The Bridge of Change, (for Roger Aplon) from John Logan: The Collected Poems1989". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  7. "Official website". The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  8. Editor (April 25, 2018). "Poems for Your Pocket". The Highlands Current. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  9. Aplon, Roger (2015-09-22). "I Carry The Dead - Poems Of War & Conflict (Poetry Reading)". Academy for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  10. Editor, Entertainment (May 18, 2016). "Enjoy Top Picks (Poetry Reading)". Poughkeepsie Journal. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  11. "Bookshelf: Selected Works by Roger Aplon". Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  12. "Reviews: Selected Reviews about Roger Aplon (Various authors)". Retrieved 2018-07-02.