Benjamin Vogt: "Uncle with Landscape—Kansas, 1954"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Benjamin Vogt’s “Uncle with Landscape—Kansas, 1954,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2003-2004 issue (Volume V, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Benjamin Vogt’s work has appeared in a number of journals, including Adirondack Review, Comstock Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cream City Review, Diagram, Evansville Review, Fugue, Harpur Palate, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, Southern Indiana Review, and Verse Daily, as well as a few anthologies, including Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America (University of Iowa Press). Vogt’s poetry chapbook, Indelible Marks, was published by Pudding House Press in 2004. In addition, he has received or been a finalist for several awards and honors including the Stadler Fellowship at Bucknell University, the Louise VanSickle Fellowship, and a grant from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. Benjamin Vogt is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in poetry and creative nonfiction at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he teaches English and serves on the editorial staff of Prairie Schooner.

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