Aaron M. Moe

"for the tree that stands / in the earth for the first time"

Ph.D. in English, Washington State University

Aaron M. Moe is the author of the book of poems, exhalations (2021), and two scholarly books—Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus (2019) and Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry (2014)—along with several chapters and articles on ecopoetics / zoopoetics. In 2015, he published a leaflet of aphorisms, Protean Poetics. His creative work can also be found at Twenty Bellows, in Counterclaims: Poets and Poetries, Talking Back, and is forthcoming in the projects Traces: Symphyses of Snow and Sand and The Despairimentalist Manifesto.

He and his family live near the foothills of the Colorado Rockies where they hike, climb, run trails, and write. 

He can be reached at aaron [dot] m [dot] moe [at] gmail.