Arthur Vogelsang

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., 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 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.

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.

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, Mark Doty, Ted Kooser, Stephen Dunn, Gerard Malanga, Albert Goldbarth, Michael Ryan, James Tate, and William Stafford.

Arthur Vogelsang (born January 31, 1942) is an American poet, teacher and editor.

Vogelsang was born in 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland. He received an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University 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.