P. Aiden Hunt

P. Aiden Hunt is neurodivergent writer and Editor/Creator of Philly Poetry Chapbook Review (PCR). He is a medical cannabis advocate, activist and patient.

Aiden Hunt is a neurodivergent writer, freelance journalist and poet based in the Philadelphia, PA suburbs. He's currently focused on using poetry to communicate the experience of living with Tourette's Syndrome, ADHD, Treatment-Resistant Depression and Anxiety/Panic Attack Disorder to a neurotypical world. Aiden publishes public policy journalism under the byline, "P. Aiden Hunt", because he goes by his middle name, but publishes creative writing without his first initial.

05/06/2025

Check out my latest review for NewPages.com: "Medieval English historian Dan Jones dramatically delivers with Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King." https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/henry-v-by-dan-jones/

'Henry V' by Dan Jones is a meticulously researched biography that reveals the journey of England's iconic king.

02/23/2025

“Drawing from his Intro to African American Studies course at Harvard, Gates delivers a real education in The Black Box: Writing the Race. While it provides an excellent overview of Black American thought from Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. De Bois to Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, Gates goes deeper than how things have appeared to outsiders.” Read my latest for NewPages.

NewPages.com offers select reviews of books, single stories, poems, essays, comics, graphic novels, artwork, and more!

01/27/2025

“Documentary poetics is often lauded for its ability to articulate social injustices and advocate for civil rights,” writes award-winning poet Craig Santos Perez.[1] Two poetry collections published last year harness this ability and mine the African American archive to shine a light on evidence of past injustices in the hopes of a better future. https://jacket2.org/reviews/mining-black-history Check out my latest review, for Jacket2!

Black BellAlison C. RollinsCopper Canyon Press 2024, 136 pages, $22.00, ISBN 9781556597008Every Hard SweetnessSheila Carter-JonesBOA Editions 2024, 134 pages, $19.00, ISBN 9781960145123

09/20/2024

Read a message from me about Issue 5 content, the future of Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, and the open online poetry course that inspired the creation of this journal. Modern & Contemporary American Poetry ( Coursera ModPo )

Read a message from Aiden Hunt about Issue 5 content, the future of Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, and the open online poetry course that inspired the creation of this journal.

09/11/2024

Check out my latest review-essay on Rae Armantrout's new collection, Go Figure, from Wesleyan University Press, curated at On the Seawall: A Community Gallery of New Writing & Commentary

“A complex mixture of ‘bluntness and grace, directness and song’ to which W. S. Merwin attributes the unique tension and power of Thomas Wyatt’s verse attracts me devotedly to the work of Jessica Fisher and Carl Phillips.”

08/06/2024

Check out my -essay (for Another Chicago Magazine) on by Cameron Barnett, a collection published by Autumn House Press in February.

Barnett stretches meaning in other poems to include celestial bodies and space programs as astronomical murmurs, and hauntings as the murmured warnings of systemic racism. (review)

05/11/2024

I’m very proud of this CNF-review hybrid essay on an event at Kelly Writers House and Evie Shockley’s award-winning book, suddenly we, published by Wesleyan University Press last year. Thanks to Reviews Editor Spencer R. Young and the whole team at Fugue Literary Journal. I love that this is my first piece in a university-affiliated lit mag.

Evie Day at the Writers House A Review of Evie Shockley’s suddenly we Aiden Hunt Review10 May 2024 Photo credit: Aiden Hunt “I’m Al Filreis and this is PoemTalk at the Writers’ House,“ began the host, as he always did with the long-running podcast. This late November day was special, thoug...

05/08/2024

I’m happy to be in the company of some great writers in the May/June edition of On the Seawall: A Community Gallery of New Writing & Commentary. Check out my essay on Cindy Juyoung Ok’s debut poetry collection, Ward Toward, from Yale University Press.

“Written after the death of Kim’s actual father, followed ‘three months and ten days later’ by her mother, Phantom Pain Wings delineates a terminal world where existence continues despite the absence of everything.”

04/04/2024

My latest lit crit piece.

Editor Aiden Hunt's essay reviews Cindy Juyoung Ok’s poetry chapbook, 'House Work', published by Ugly Duckling Presse in March 2023.

03/15/2024

Check out my of ’s latest collection, , published by Tupelo Quarterly! My first, but definitely not last, critical essay for a (that isn’t my own).

One night in 2012, Oliver Nguyen carefully removed all of the family pictures from their frames in his parent’s home. Using a X-Acto knife, he excised his image from the family’s photographic history before returning the pictures to their frames. His parents never spoke of it with him or their t...

03/06/2024

NewPages.com offers select reviews on books, single stories, poems, essays, comics, graphic novels, artwork, and more!

02/15/2024

Aiden Hunt reviews Amanda Newell’s “I Will Pass Even to Acheron” in this essay, the second part of his essay, “Does the Rattle Chapbook Prize live up to the hype?”

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