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Benjamin Vogt is a poet and essayist from Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born in Oklahoma in 1976, and has lived in Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, and England. Vogt has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in two genres, received a grant from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund, the Louise VanSickle Fellowship, the Wheeler Fellowship, a Stuff Dissertation Fellowship, and a Vermont Studio Center Artist's Grant. His prose and poetry have appeared in literary journals such as ''American Life in Poetry'', ''Crab Orchard Review'', ''Diagram'', ''Ellipis'', ''Fugue'', ''Hayden's Ferry Review'', ''ISLE'', ''Puerto del Sol'', ''Sou'wester'', ''Subtropics'', and ''Verse Daily''. Vogt is the author of a full-length poetry collection, ''Afterimage'', forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press, as well as two poetry chapbooks: ''Indelible Marks'' (Pudding House, 2004) and ''Without Such Absence'' (Finishing Line Press, 2010). Vogt has a BFA in creative writing / literature from the University of Evansville, an MFA in poetry from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in poetry and creative nonfiction (double dissertation) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Current projects include: a poetry collection entitled ''Afterimage'', which uses received forms to explore family photographs from the last two centuries (focusing on the Great Plains and the Midwest); ''Morning Glory: A Story of Family and Culture in the Garden'', a gardening memoir that explores revelations of family abuse, silence, and depression through landscape design, natural history, and environmental philosophy; and ''Sleep, Creep, Leap: The First Three Years of a Garden'', a collection of short narrative, humorous, and lyric essays on establishing a garden in Nebraska, from the author's wife peeling skin off of his back after a sunburn, to using one piece of mulch to balance the garden, and vanishing in a low-flying line of geese one evening in late autumn. Vogt is currently a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and tends his garden full of native Great Plains and Midwestern plants. Creative Nonfiction Online: 1) (Monarch Butterflies: The Last Migration ), from ''Prairie Fire''; 2) (The Lion's Tooth ), from ''ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment'' Poetry Online: 1) (Grandpa Vogt's--1959 ) from ''American Life in Poetry''; 2) (Compatible and Flat Tire ) from ''DIAGRAM''; 3) (Section 117 Plot 21 ) from ''Verse Daily''; 4) (Uncle With Landscape--Kansas, 1954 ) from ''Valparaiso Poetry Review'' ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Vogt (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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