Discipline: Literature

William Logan

Discipline: Literature
Region: Gainesville, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976, 1977, 1978

William Logan’s most recent book of poems is Rift of Light (2017) and most recent book of essays is Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods (2018). His reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the New Criterion, Poetry, and other journals; and he has written a twice-a-year verse chronicle for the New Criterion since 1995. Logan has received, among other honors, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction, the inaugural Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism, the Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, and the Allen Tate Prize. Logan is Alumni/ae Professor of English at the University of Florida, where he was director of the creative writing from 1983 to 2000.

Studios

New Hampshire

William Logan worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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