Arthur Vogelsang (born January 31, 1942) is an American poet, teacher and editor.
Early life and education
Vogelsang was born in 1942 in
Baltimore, Maryland
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. He received an MA from the Writing Seminars at
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...
where he met his future wife, filmmaker Judith Ayers. He lived in New York City from 1966–68, and worked as an Editing Supervisor for the McGraw-Hill Book Company in College Textbooks and the International Division. In 1970 he earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop.
[Los Angeles Times, View, p. 14, March 27, 1985]
“Poets Are Born, Not Paid,”
by Andrew Avalos. The Los Angeles Times.
Literary career
Vogelsang has written seven books of poetry. In 1983 he published ''A Planet''. Next came ''Twentieth Century Women'' in 1988, which was included in John Ashbery's Contemporary Poetry Series.,
[Library of Congress Online Catalog
http://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=12404&recPointer=6&recCount=25&bibId=15413048] ''Cities and Towns'' was published in 1996, and won the Juniper Prize. In 2003 he released ''Left Wing of a Bird'', and later in 2011 ''Expedition: New & Selected Poems''.
Vogelsang's poetry appears in a number of anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, The
Pushcart Prize,
[The Pushcart Prize IX]
"The Pushcart prize, XIX, 1994-1995 ".
Wainscott, NY : Pushcart Press, c1994. and the Norton anthology ''American Hybrid''. His work has been published in ''Boston Review'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''Poetry''; and online at ''Evergreen Review'', ''Plume'', and ''Zocalo Public Square''.
He was an editor/publisher of ''The American Poetry Review'' from 1973-2006.
With Stephen Berg and David Bonanno, Vogelsang edited the anthology ''The Body Electric, America’s Best Poetry from The American Poetry Review'', (W.W. Norton & Co., 2000), with an introduction by
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was described as "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking worl ...
.
"THE BODY ELECTRIC"
''Kirkus Review''. April 1st, 2000
Vogelsang started his own publishing company, Metro Book Co., in 1983, and published poet Gerald Stern’s ''Rejoicings'' in 1984,and Michael Burkard’s ''The Fires They Kept'', in 1986. The company operated until 2002.
Between 1971 and 1980, Vogelsang, Jonathan Katz and A.G. Sobin edited a literary quarterly, ''The Ark River Review'', from Wichita, Kansas, and published the work of many authors, including Kenneth Rexroth, Donald Justice
Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.
In summing up Justice's career, David Orr wrote, "In most ways, Justice was no different from a ...
, Mark Doty
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Early life
Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee to Lawrence an ...
, Ted Kooser
Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939) is an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. Kooser was one of the first poets laureate selec ...
, Stephen Dunn, Gerard Malanga
Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator and archivist.
Early life
Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943, the only child of Italian immigrant parents. In 1959, at the beginning of ...
, Albert Goldbarth, Michael Ryan, James Tate, and William Stafford.
Vogelsang has taught at the University of Nevada MFA/PhD Program, University of Southern California, University of Redlands, Kansas Arts Commission Workshops, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshops.
Books
* ''Orbit'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
* ''Expedition: New & Selected Poems'' (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2011)
* ''Left Wing of a Bird'' (Sarabande Books, 2003)
* ''Cities and Towns'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996; awarded the Juniper Prize)
* ''Twentieth Century Women'' (University of Georgia Press, 1988; selected by John Ashbery for the Contemporary Poets Series)
* ''A Planet'' (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983)
Awards
*The Best American Poetry (Scribner, 2007)
*National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1996
*Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts Press, 1996
*California Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, 1995
*Pushcart Prize, 1995
References
External links
*Author Website http://www.arthurvogelsang.com/index.htm
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1942 births
Living people
American male poets
Johns Hopkins University alumni