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
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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 is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...
,
[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 called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". Af ...
.
"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
Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Althoug ...
, Donald Justice, Mark Doty, Ted Kooser, Stephen Dunn, Gerard Malanga
Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator and archivist.
Malanga worked with pop artist Andy Warhol from 1963 to 1970. The New York Times referred to him as "Andy Warhol's most import ...
, 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