Arthur Vogelsang was born in Baltimore and has lived there and in New York City, Iowa City, Wichita, Philadelphia, Paris, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, places he has been employed variously as a teacher (University of Redlands, University of Southern California, University of Nevada, Wichita State University, the Kansas Arts Commission, University of Iowa) and as an editor ( The American Poetry Review, 1973 - 2006). His books of poetry are A Planet (Holt, 1983), Twentieth Century Women (University of Georgia Press, 1988), which was selected by John Ashbery for the Contemporary Poetry Series, Cities and Towns, (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996), which received the Juniper Prize, and Left Wing of a Bird (Sarabande, 2003), with numerous appearances in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry (Scribner), The Pushcart Prize, The New Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, and American Hybrid (W. W. Norton & Co.) The recipient of a California Arts Council fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry, Vogelsang's Expedition: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Ashland Poetry Press.