Jay Rogoff’s newest book, Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods, published by Louisiana State University Press, won the Lewis P. Simpson Award for an outstanding work of literary criticism. He has published seven collections of poetry, beginning with his debut book, The Cutoff, winner of the Word Works Washington Prize. His books with LSU Press include The Long Fault, The Art of Gravity, Venera, Enamel Eyes, and, most recently, Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems. His poetry and prose have appeared widely, in such places as AGNI, Georgia Review, Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, and Southern Review. His other awards include the Poetry Society of America’s John Masefield Award, the Robert Watson Poetry Prize for the chapbook Danses Macabres, and a Pushcart Prize. A longtime dance critic, he is working on Balanchine Is Now! an exploration of how George Balanchine’s ballets express interior human life, and on a book-length poem. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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SESSION INFO:
Sunday, October 6, 11:30am at Embassy Suites Skidmore Room: Nonfiction: Critical and Personal with Melora Wolff & Jay Rogoff