Jay Rogoff

Jay Rogoff has received the Lewis P. Simpson Award for literary criticism for his new book, Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods, published in fall 2023 by Louisiana State University Press. His seven books of poetry include The Long Fault, The Art of Gravity, Enamel Eyes, and, most recently, Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems, all from LSU. A longtime dance critic, he is at work on Balanchine Is Now! an exploration of how George Balanchine’s ballets express interior human life, and on a booklength poem. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York. (photo credit: Penny Howell Jolly)