| Jay Rogoff Monday, November 12 12:30 p.m. Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Jay Rogoff has published two full length books of poetry, The Cutoff(Word Works, 1995), set into the minor league world of baseball, which won the Washington Prize competition, and How We Came to Stand on That Shore(River City,2003), selected for the River City Poetry Series. His third book, The Long Fault, is scheduled to appear from Louisiana State University Press in 2008. Rogoff's poems have appeared in some of the most renowned journals such as The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, And The Yale Review. He also regularly publishes cristism. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New york, with his wife, art historian Penny Jolly, and teaches at Skidmore College. |
| George Drew Wednesday, December 05 12:30 p.m. Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
The poems in George Drew's first published volume of poetry, Toads in a Poisoned Tank(1986), are informed by his Southern and Northern roots. His next chapbook So Many Bones (Poems of Russia)(1997) grew out of two trips to Russia in the mid-1990s, just a few years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. His most recent volume, The Horse's Name was Physics(Turning Point Press,2006,an imprint of Word Tech Communications) reflects the author's interest in the intersection of art and science-the Humanities and the Sciences. |