Don Bogen

Don Bogen is the author of six books of poems, including Immediate Song (Milkweed, 2019) and An Algebra (Chicago, 2009), along with a book on Theodore Roethke and a translation of selected poems by the contemporary Spanish poet Julio Martínez Mesanza. He has collaborated with composers from the U.S and abroad. Prizes for his work include a Discovery Award, the Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Camargo Foundation. He has held Fulbright positions at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast and at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo in Spain. Nathaniel Ropes Professor Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, he serves as editor-at-large of The Cincinnati Review and lives in Martinez, California.