V P LogginsV. P. Loggins is the author of THE WILD SEVERANCE (Bright Hill Press, 2021), THE GREEN CUP (Cider Press Review, 2017), winner of the Cider Press Review Editors' Prize, The Fourth Paradise (Main Street Rag 2010), and Heaven Changes (Pudding House Chapook Series, 2007). He has published one book of criticism on Shakespeare, The Life of Our Design, and is co-author of another, Shakespeare's Deliberate Art. His poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, First Things, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Healing Muse, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Poetry Ireland Review, The Southern Review, Tampa Review, among others. He has been a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the May Swenson Award, and the Tampa Review Prize. Talking Drums, an art exhibition and installation by sculptor and ceramicist Andrew Cooke, music by Paddy Craig, based on poems in The Fourth Paradise, appeared in Portaferry, Northern Ireland. His work has been featured in A Universe of Dreams, poetry and music performed nationally by Neal Conan of National Public Radio and Ensemble Galilei. Born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Illinois, V. P. Loggins holds a PhD in English Renaissance literature from Purdue University and has taught most recently at the United States Naval Academy. Read More Read Less