Aaron Belz’ Poetics of Distraction: A technologically hip way to publish our work. How cool is that?
Aaron Belz is a modern man of letters, a university teacher, poet,reviewer, essayist, and organizer of St. Louis’ Observable Readings. Through Aaron I met the Nigerian poet Obi Nwakanma who was a touchstone for me at last week’s Soyinka Symposium in Carbondale. Aaron Belz’ “gravely hilarious” poems, as Denise Duhamel describes them, in “The Bird…