About Jay Rogoff

Jay Rogoff has published three books of poetry: The Cutoff (Word Works, 1995), which won the 1994 Washington Prize, How We Came to Stand on That Shore (River City, 2003), and most recently The Long Fault (LSU Press, 2008). His next book, The Code of Terpsichore, forthcoming from LSU in 2011, deals largely with dance. He has also previously published the chapbook First Hand (Mica, 1997) and collaborated with printmaker and book artist Kate Leavitt on the artists’ book Venera (Green Eye, 2001). Rogoff’s poetry has appeared in many publications, including AGNI, Field, The Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Ploughshares, The Progressive, and The Southern Review. His criticism has also appeared widely in such journals as The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, and especially in The Southern Review. He covers the New York City Ballet summer season in Saratoga for his local paper, The Saratogian, and serves as dance critic for The Hopkins Review. His chapbook Twenty Danses Macabre was selected by Camille Dungy as the winner of the 2009 Robert Watson Poetry Award. Rogoff lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife, art historian Penny Howell Jolly, and teaches at Skidmore College.

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