William Logan
Professor
William Logan is
the author of seven books of poems: Sad-faced Men (1982), Difficulty (1985), Sullen
Weedy Lakes (1988), Vain Empires (1998), Night
Battle (1999), Macbeth in Venice (2003), and The
Whispering Gallery (2005). He is the author of four books of
criticism, All the Rage (1998), Reputations of the
Tongue (1999), Desperate Measures (2002), and The
Undiscovered Country (2005); and co-editor of a book on the
poetry of Donald Justice, Certain Solitudes (1997). Reputations
of the Tongue was a finalist for and The Undiscovered
Country the winner of the National Book Critics Circle
Award in Criticism.
The Undiscovered Country was also named the best book
of criticism of 2005 by the Contemporary Poetry Review.
Logan is a regular critic of poetry for the New York Times Book Review and writes a biannual verse chronicle for the New Criterion. He has won the Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle, the Peter I.B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the John Masefield and Celia B. Wagner Awards from the Poetry Society of America, and the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from Poetry. In 2004 he received the Corrington Award for Literary Excellence and in 2005 the inaugural Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism. He has also won the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship and received grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Florida Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Logan graduated from Yale (BA, 1972) and the University of Iowa (MFA, 1975). He was the English Department’s Director of Creative Writing from 1983 to 2000. He teaches poetry workshops and an occasional seminar on contemporary poetry.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4211H
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 239
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: < wlogan@english.ufl.edu>