Caffe Lena Poetry Featuring Jay Rogoff

The first Wednesday of every month is Poetry Night at Caffe Lena. Hosted by Carol Graser, this event includes an open mic reading and a featured poet. The doors open for signups at 6:30 and the readings start at 7PM. On March 6, the featured poet is Jay Rogoff. The featured reading will also be live streamed, please visit caffelena.org for links and information.

Jay Rogoff has published seven books of poetry, including The Cutoff, which won the Word Works Washington Prize, and, from Louisiana State University Press, The Long Fault, The Art of Gravity, Enamel Eyes, and, most recently, Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems. His new book, Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods, has received the Lewis P. Simpson Award for outstanding literary criticism. His poetry and criticism have appeared widely, in such places as AGNI, Georgia Review, Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, and Southern Review. 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.