Brad Vogel is the author of the poetry collection Broad Meadow Bird. A finalist for the 2020 Erskine J. Poetry Prize, his poetry has appeared in Smartish Pace, The Freshwater Review, SIZL, Menagerie, Solitary Plover, Deadline Gowanus, and more. His writing has appeared in The New York Times. Vogel organizes the annual NYC Poets Afloat residencies and reading series aboard vessels in NY Harbor, as well as the annual dawn canoe reading on the Gowanus Canal as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Previously a resident of both New Orleans and Wisconsin, Vogel is an active resident of Gowanus, Brooklyn. His poetry has continued to crop up around the edges of his many educational, work, and extracurricular ventures over the past two decades. Vogel’s poetry draws on an eclectic variety of influences and focuses on attempts, direct and indirect, to crystallize moments and refract them back to the reader or listener in unexpected, lyrical, insight-laden ways. He counts Robinson Jeffers, Lorine Niedecker, Gabriel Gudding, and Walt Whitman among his favorite poets.