Part 1: Interview with Aaron Belz, A Poet's Post-Savannah Dispatch

Wordsmith extraordinaire Aaron Belz is a punchy and pithy poet.  In books like “Soft Launch” and “Glitter Bomb,” Aaron supplies spoonfuls of guffaw-rendering humor that coats poignant moments of pathos and human-reckoning.  

Although he was not in Savannah for long, we are counting him as one of our own.  Thus he joins the pantheon of other short-timer Savannahians of note like  John & Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, William Tecumseh Sherman, Sandra Bullock, Sponge Bob Square Pants, Greg Allman and Dwayne the Rock Johnson.     

Upon completing his two-year of seasons in Savannah he was off to one of his former home towns - St. Louis.  That’s were Aaron joined me for a COVID style video conference interview. 

In Part 1 of his interview, Aaron talks about the dynamics of community artistic endeavors  in light of SCAD’s formidable presence here.  Aaron talks about what he experienced here that he values and what it was like for him to write in Savannah in comparison to other places.