'Heart of Art' featuring Fan Ogilvie

Fan Ogilvie published “YOU" selected poems and "KNOT: A LIFE” a memoir. She won Chester H Jones Foundation Award In 2016 "EASINESSES FOUND" poems and paintings, was published. It received special recognition from the Washington Independent Review of Poetry and Grace Cavalieri, creator of the Poet and the Poem series.

In 2020 “The Berth” was published. Fan has 4 books of poetry published since 2008. Her fifth is due in the spring of 2026 Fan taught English and poetry in Washington, DC, New Haven, CT, New York City, NY, and Martha's Vineyard, MA. She was selected to be the 2nd Poet Laureate of West Tisbury, Ma.

In spring of 2024 she established the Society for Selecting the Poet Laureate of Martha’s Vineyard. Fan created and developed the Folger Shakespeare Library poetry program in 1984. She and Saskia Hamilton ran the program until 1994.

Significant poets in the US and abroad read in the theater throughout the years. She worked three years at the Dukes County House of Correction, where she and Katie Upson published two volumes of poetry by the inmates. And learned the lyrics to Rap music. She is now facilitator of the Cleaveland House Poetry Workshop, the oldest (62years) continuous poetry group in the USA.

Fan, also a painter, had a one person show at Featherstone Center for the Arts, two shows at The Free Library of West Tisbury, the Chilmark Library and Galaxy Gallery in Oak Bluffs all in Massachusetts Fan and Arnie Reisman co-edited a collection of Judith Neeld’s poetry 2019, Judith Neeld “Collected Poems”.