V. P. Loggins

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Illinois, V. P. Loggins is the author of The Green Cup (Cider Press Review 2017), The Fourth Paradise (Main Street Rag 2010) and Heaven Changes (Pudding House Chapbook Series 2007). He has also published one critical book on Shakespeare and is co-author of another. His poems and articles have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The Baltimore Review, Crannog (Ireland), The Dalhousie Review (Canada), English Journal, The Formalist, The Healing Muse, Memoir (and), Modern Age, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Poetry Ireland Review, Slipstream and The Southern Review, among other journals. Talking Drums, an art exhibition and installation by sculptor and ceramicist Andrew Cooke, music by Paddy Craig, and based on the poetry of V. P. Loggins, appeared in Portaferry, Northern Ireland. He has taught at several institutions, most recently the United States Naval Academy.