Jay Rogoff has published six books of poetry, most recently Enamel Eyes, A Fantasia on Paris, 1870 (2016); Venera (2014), a consideration of love and art; The Art of Gravity (2011), a collection obsessed with dance; and The Long Fault (2008), which deals with history and mortality, all published by Louisiana State University Press. His poems have appeared in many journals, including AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, Literary Imagination, The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Progressive, Salmagundi, and The Southern Review, and his literary criticism in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Salmagundi, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He serves as dance critic for The Hopkins Review and also writes on dance for Ballet Review, The Saratogian, and other publications. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife, art historian Penny Jolly, and teaches at Skidmore College. He is compiling a volume of new and selected poems, tentatively titled Loving in Truth.

Website: www.jayrogoff.com

Publications

• The Cutoff: A Sequence , Word Works (February 1, 1995)
• First Hand: A Sequence , Mica Press (August 1, 1997)
• How We Came to Stand on That Shore: Poems , River City Publishing (March 1, 2003)
• The Long Fault: Poems , LSU Press (September 1, 2008)
• The Art of Gravity: Poems , LSU Press (February 1, 2011)
• Venera: Poems , LSU Press (February 1, 2014)
• Enamel Eyes: A Fantasia on Paris, 1870: Poems , LSU Press (November 16, 2016)

Awards

• Pushcart Prize(2010)
• Robert Watson Poetry Award(2009)
• Washington Prize(1994)
• John Masefield Poetry Award(1981)

Employment

• Assistant Professor of English at LeMoyne College (September 1980 - May 1985)
• Academic Advisor at Skidmore College University Without Walls (August 1985 - August 1995)
• Lecturer in Liberal Studies at Skidmore College (September 1995 - December 2002)
• Lecturer in English at Skidmore College (September 2003 - )
• Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College (September 2013 - May 2015)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from University of Pennsylvania (May 1975)
• Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Syracuse University (August 1978)
• Doctoral Degree in English from Syracuse University (August 1981)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry