Deborah Bogen's first book of poems, Landscape With Silos, published by Texas Review Press in 2006, was a National Poetry Series Finalist in 2004 and won the 2005 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Her poetry and reviews appear widely in journals like Shenandoah, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review and Margie. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

All the poems by Deborah Bogen that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 4, 2008:   "Cantilevered Bedtime Story" "Wallpaper farm, the girl..."
January 6, 2008:   "bearing on the glory of love" "There are twelve trees on my block...."
October 4, 2006:   "Crows" " He said John, immediately..."
March 28, 2004:  "Moving the Moon" "I'm not interested in the shaggy horse..."

Books by Deborah Bogen: Landscape With Silos

Other poems on the web by Deborah Bogen:
Three poems
"Gravity"
"Call to Poets"
"Waiting to Write the Great American Poem"
"At the Whitney"
"Today"

Deborah Bogen's Home Page.

About Plain Spoke:
Poets in this issue: Deborah Bogen, E. Kristin Anderson, Taylor Collier, Arun Gaur, Anita Graber, Virginia Lee Hines, Leigh Anne Hornfeldt, Zachary Kluckman, Cedrick Mendoza-Tolentino, Ray Succre, David Trame, Amy Watkins,