Don Hogle is a lifelong student of languages and has traveled to some 40-odd countries. He holds a BA in Spanish from Washington and Lee University, is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and attended NYU’s Leonard Stern Graduate School of Business. He had a long career in advertising as a brand and messaging strategist for clients such as Evian, Intel, Chase, Charles Schwab and the New York Stock Exchange.
He won First Prize in the 2023 Open Poetry Competition of the National Association of Writers and Groups in the U.K; was a finalist in the 2023 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards for Poetry, and runner-up for the 2023 Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest for Modern Sonnet.
To date, he has published over 115 poems in sixty journals, including Apalachee Review, Atlanta Review, Carolina Quarterly, Chautauqua, Maryland Institute College of Arts’ Full Bleed, New School Food’s The Inquisitive Eater, and The Westchester Review in the U.S.; A3 Review, allthesins, Pennine Platform, and Shooter in the U.K.; and Southword in Ireland. A chapbook, Madagascar, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2020.
He has studied in workshops with Kim Addonizio, Mark Bibbins, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodrhán, Eduardo C. Corral, Alison Hawthorne Deming, B. C. Edwards, Nick Flynn, Major Jackson, Van Jordan, Laura Kasischke, Dorianne Laux, Matthew Lippman, Hermine Meinhard, Michael Montlack, Geofffrey Nutter, David Orr, Greg Pardlo, Rowen Ricardo Philips, Carl Phillips, Eléna Rivera, Diane Seuss, Joseph Stanton, Terese Svoboda, Mary Szybist and at The Writer’s Hotel.
He writes a travel blog and is an avid photographer. He grew up in upstate New York and later in South Florida and now lives happily in Manhattan.