The Word Works, Poet Lore, and The Writer’s Center present Café Muse, featuring poets Donika Kelly and Jay Rogoff. The chatroom opens at 7pm and features Classical guitar, played by Michael C. Davis and set to a photo slideshow. Registration is free but required to get the Zoom link. To do so go to https://sites.google.com/
DONIKA KELLY is the author of The Renunciations (Greywolf, 2021) and Bestiary (Greywolf, 2016). Bestiary is the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the collective Poets at the End of the World, Kelly has also received a Lannan Residency Fellowship, and a summer workshop fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Foglifter. She is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA. donikakelly.com/
JAY ROGOFF is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University (LSU) Press, 2020). His awards include The Washington Prize for his debut collection The Cutoff (The Word Works, 1995), the Robert Watson Award for his chapbook Twenty Danses Macabres (Spring Garden Press, 2010), and a Pushcart Prize for his poem “Wear”. His poems and criticism have appeared in many journals, including The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, and The Southern Review. Rogoff serves as dance critic for The Hopkins Review. He teaches at Skidmore College and lives in Saratoga Springs, NY. jayrogoff.com/