Background
He was born in Oklahoma in 1976, and has lived in Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, and England.
He was born in Oklahoma in 1976, and has lived in Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, and England.
Ohio State University.
His prose and poetry have appeared in literary journals such as American Life in Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Diagram, Ellipis, Fugue, Hayden"s Ferry Review, ISLE, Puerto del Sol, Sou"wester, Subtropics, and Verse Daily. Vogt is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Afterimage, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press, as well as two poetry chapbooks: Indelible Marks (Pudding House, 2004) and Without Such Absence (Finishing Lincolnshire Press, 2010). Vogt has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing / literature from the University of Evansville, an Master of Fine Arts in poetry from The Ohio State University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in poetry and creative nonfiction (double dissertation) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Current projects include: a poetry collection entitled Afterimage, which uses received forms to explore family photographs from the last two centuries (focusing on the Great Plains and the Midwest).
Morning Glory: A Story of Family and Culture in the Garden, a gardening memoir that explores revelations of family abuse, silence, and depression through landscape design, natural history, and environmental philosophy. And Sleep, Creep, Leap: The First Three Years of a Garden, a collection of short narrative, humorous, and lyric essays on establishing a garden in Nebraska, from the author"s wife peeling skin off of his back after a sunburn, to using one piece of mulch to balance the garden, and vanishing in a low-flying line of geese one evening in late autumn.
Vogt is currently a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and tends his 2,000-square-foot (190 m2) garden full of native Great Plains and Midwestern plants. Creative Nonfiction Online: 1) Monarch Butterflies: The Last Migration, from Prairie Fire.
2) The Lion"s Tooth, from ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Poetry Online: 1) Grandpa Vogt"s--1959 from American Life in Poetry.
2) Compatible and Flat Tire from DIAGRAM. 3) Section 117 Plot 21 from Verse Daily. 4) Uncle With Landscape--Kansas, 1954 from Valparaiso Poetry Review.