John B. Logan (born January 23, 1923, Red Oak, Iowa – died November 6, 1987, San Francisco, California) was an American poet and teacher.
[2] He authored over 14 books of poetry and essays including Spring of the Thief (1963) and Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream, which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1982.
The poet Hayden Carruth has written that Logan was responsible for "creating a new lyricism" through his poetry.
His many students include the poets Marvin Bell and Bill Knott.
[3] FEW of the American poets now in their 50s have placed the personal, the psychological, as squarely at the center of their work as the preceding generation, that of Lowell and Berryman, did.