poet : ceremonialist : professor
Danielle Vogel is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of queer and feminist ecologies, somatics, and ceremony. She is the author of the hybrid poetry collections A Library of Light (Wesleyan University Press 2024), Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press 2020), The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity (Red Hen Press 2020), and Between Grammars (Noemi Press 2015). Vogel’s installations and site responsive works have been displayed at RISD Museum, among other art venues, and adaptations of her work have been performed at such places as Carnegie Hall in New York and the Tjarnarbíó Theater in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Vogel is committed to an embodied, ceremonial approach to poetics and relies heavily on field research, cross-disciplinary studies, and archives of all kinds. Her installations and site-responsive works—or “ceremonies for language”—are often extensions of her manuscripts and tend to the living archives of memory shared between bodies, languages, and landscapes.
Born in Queens, New York, and raised on the South Shore of Long Island, Vogel earned a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver and an MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University. She is currently associate professor at Wesleyan University where she teaches workshops in experimental poetics, investigative and documentary poetics, ecopoetics, hybrid forms, memory and memoir, the lyric essay, and composing across the arts.
Vogel lives in the Connecticut River Valley with her partner, the writer and artist Renee Gladman, where she also runs a private practice as an herbalist and flower essence practitioner.
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Danielle Vogel is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of queer and feminist ecologies, somatics, and ceremony. She is the author of four hybrid poetry collections, including Edges & Fray and a triptych of poetic texts: Between Grammars, The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity, and A Library of Light. Her installations and site responsive works have been displayed at RISD Museum, among other art venues, and adaptations of her work have been performed at such places as Carnegie Hall in New York and the Tjarnarbíó Theater in Reykjavík, Iceland. Vogel is associate professor at Wesleyan University where she teaches workshops in innovative poetics, memory and memoir, and composing across the arts. She makes her home in the Connecticut River Valley where she also runs a private practice as a herbalist and flower essence practitioner.