BOA Authors & Poets

John Logan

Born in Red Oak, Iowa, in 1923, John Logan attended Coe College, received an M.A. from Iowa University, and did graduate work in philosophy at Georgetown and Notre Dame. He married in 1945 and later divorced; he was the father of nine children. His first book, A Cycle for Mother Cabrini (1955), introduced many of the religious and metaphysical themes the poet would explore throughout his writing life. Although he eventually abandoned Catholicism, Logan continued to address issues of hope, community, and identity. In The Poem and Its Skin , critic John Crowe Ransom identified these concerns as "the secular priesthood" of the poet.

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