V. P. Loggins is the author of The Wild Severance, winner of the 26th annual Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition, The Green Cup, winner of the 2016 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize, The Fourth Paradise (Editor’s Select Poetry Series, Main Street Rag 2010) and Heaven Changes (Pudding House Chapbook Series 2007). His poems and articles have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Crannog (Ireland), The Dalhousie Review (Canada), English Journal, The Formalist, The Healing Muse, Memoir, Modern Age, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Poetry Ireland Review, Slipstream, The Southern Review and Third Wednesday, among other journals. His critical work includes one book on Shakespeare, The Life of Our Design, and Shakespeare’s Deliberate Art (co-author). He has been selected as a finalist for 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize (America), the White Pine Press Poetry Award, the Word Works Washington Prize, and the May Swenson Award. In 2011 Talking Drums, an art exhibition and installation by sculptor and ceramicist Andrew Cooke with music by Paddy Craig, based on The Fourth Paradise, appeared in Portaferry, Northern Ireland. His work has been featured in A Universe of Dreams, poetry and music performed nationally by Neal Conan of National Public Radio and Ensemble Galilei. He has taught at several institutions, most recently the United States Naval Academy.

Website: www.vploggins.com

Publications

• The Wild Severance , Bright Hill Press (April 20, 2021)
• The Green Cup , Cider Press Review (August 15, 2017)
• The Fourth Paradise , Main Street Rag (February 28, 2010)

Awards

• Cider Press Review Editors' Prize(2016)
• Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition(2018)

Genres of Interest

Poetry