Neil Aitken poet artist editor instructor

Neil Aitken is a poet of consummate grace and skill.  His poems are acutely observed, unerring musically, sensual and lyrical.  Filled with longing and subtle epiphanies, his poetry plumbs the depths of the human heart, and hints towards the heights of the human spirit. His writing accomplishes what Wallace Stevens suggested—that, in the best poems, “description is revelation,” for each of Aitken’s poems reveals the world anew for the reader. 

—Maurya Simon, author of Ghost Orchid and Speaking in Tongues

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Neil Aitken writes with careful calculation and a heart of fire. His work is smart, sensual and innovative.

—Chris Abani, author of Graceland and The Virgin of Flames


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