Aiden Hunt is a neurodivergent and disabled writer, editor, poet and literary critic based in the Philadelphia, PA suburbs. He is the editor and creator of the Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, an online literary magazine dedicated to poetry chapbooks. His literary criticism on contemporary poetry collections has been published in The Adroit Journal, Jacket2, Another Chicago Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, On the Seawall, The Rumpus, and Fugue, among other venues. (links below)
Aiden is proud to be a member of the creative community surrounding the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House. In addition to volunteering as a Community Teaching Assistant for ModPo— a free-to-all massive open online course on Modern & Contemporary American Poetry— he led an online book discussion group for KWH in February 2025 and has been invited to do so again.
Between 2013 and 2023, Aiden practiced independent and freelance journalism. He created and ran Profiles in Legalization, a cannabis policy news site and the activist Cannabis Salvation Blog. Full journalism credits can be found at the MuckRack links below. Aiden’s current focus is literary criticism.
Interviews
On Literary Criticism, Disability & Building a Literary Education (The Creative Process, June 2025)
New Lit on the Block :: Philly Chapbook Poetry Review (NewPages.com, 2/6/24)
Interview with P. Aiden Hunt of Profiles in Legalization (Newstex Blog, 12/1/21)
Recent literary criticism
Review: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El-Akkad (PAidenHunt.com, 10/31/25)
Book Review :: King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson (NewPages, 8/31/25)
Book Review :: I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee (NewPages, 8/12/25)
Contrast, Rumination, and Metamorphosis: Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster (The Rumpus, 5/21/25)
Book Review :: Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones (NewPages, 5/4/25)
Book Review :: Apprentice to a Breathing Hand by Laynie Browne (NewPages, 4/17/25)
Book Review :: The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson (NewPages, 2/25/25)
Book Review :: The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (NewPages, 2/23/25)
A Conversation with Kate Colby (Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, Winter 2025)
Book Review :: Blade by Blade by Danusha Laméris (NewPages, 2/6/25)
Mining Black history: On two docu-poetry collections (Jacket2, 1/27/25)
A Review of Daniel Borzutzky’s The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (The Adroit Journal, 1/13/25)
Book Review :: Context Collapse by Ryan Ruby (NewPages, 12/19/24)
on Go Figure, poems by Rae Armantrout (On the Seawall, September/October 2024)
Review of Cameron Barnett’s Murmur by Aiden Hunt (Another Chicago Magazine, 8/6/24)
A Conversation with Aldon Lynn Nielsen (Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, June/July 2024)
Evie Day at the Writers House: A Review of Evie Shockley’s suddenly we (Fugue, 5/10/24)
on Ward Toward, poems by Cindy Juyoung Ok (On the Seawall, May/June 2024)
On Photos That Lie & Poems of Hard Truths: Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Root Fractures (Tupelo Quarterly Reviews, March 2024)
Book Review :: Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss (NewPages, 3/6/24)
Of War’s Seductions & Consequences: A Chapbook Review (Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, Jan./Feb. 2024)
Father Figures: A Review of Books by Arthur Russell and CooXooEii Black (Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, Jan./Feb. 2024)
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Personal Social Media Presence
Philly Poetry Chapbook Review Links
Professional Organizations
National Writers Union, Freelance Solidarity Project
Editorial Freelancers Association
Muck Rack
Aiden Hunt, Freelance Journalist Page
Aiden Hunt, Editor & Publisher Page
Philly Poetry Chapbook Review Outlet Page
Aiden Hunt is a creative writer. He practices public policy journalism under the byline, “P. Aiden Hunt.” His main focus is cannabis and drug policy.
Aiden has lived in the Philadelphia suburbs for most of his life. He lived in Denver, CO for the first 6 months of 2014 to cover the beginning of legal cannabis.
Profiles in Legalization is a series of literary profile essays about significant figures in U.S. cannabis legalization.
LegalizationProfiles.org is also a cannabis policy site and trade publication, featuring news from around the web and original reporting. The site is syndicated by ACI Information Group.
Note: The reprinted articles on this site are intended to be viewed as the author’s portfolio, not for public promotion. Articles not written for The Cannabis Salvation Blog or MarijuanaPolicyNews.org and pictured reproductions thereof are property of the original publisher. The publisher is linked in the article when possible.
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