Aaron Fischer worked for 40 years as a print and online editor for newspapers and magazines. His poems have appeared in the American Journal of Poetry, Briar Cliff Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Five Points, Hudson Review, Naugatuck River Review, and elsewhere. He won the 2020 Prime Number Magazine poetry contest, as well as the Top Sonnet award from the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest for 2019 and 2021. His chapbook, Black Stars of Blood: The Weegee Poems, comprises ekphrastic poems based on the work of the great news photographer of the ’30s and ’40s. Fischer was the founding rhythm guitarist of Trayf, the Jewish punk band.
Paperback: 108 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (August 1, 2022)