A native of Red Oak, Iowa, John Logan (1923-1987) was a nationally regarded poet who taught in the English Department at The State University of New York at Buffalo for nineteen years (1966-1985). His published volumes of poetry include Cycle for Mother Cabrini (1955, 1971), Spring of the Thief (1963), The House that Jack Built or A Portrait of the Artist as a Sad Sensualist (1974, 1985), and The Bridge of Change (1981). In 1976 the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York published several of his poems along with a number of Aaron Siskind's photographs in Aaron Siskind Photographs/John Logan Poems. The last volume published before his death was The Transformation: Poems January to March 1981 (1983). Logan's poetry appeared in many distinguished magazines and literary journals and he himself was the founder of Choice, a literary and visual arts magazine that he edited from 1961 to 1980. His professional accolades include the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for Poetry from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Lenore Marshall Prize from the New Hope Foundation, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations.