Poetry Open Mic Featuring Bertha Rogers

BERTHA ROGERS, poet, translator, and visual artist, has published poems and translations in literary journals and anthologies, among them the just released What Want Brings: New & Selected Poems (Salmon, Ireland) Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers, Seeing Things: Woodland Arts Editions; and Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Her poetry collections include Wild, Again (Salmon); Heart Turned Back (Salmon); Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen). Her illustrated translation of Beowulf was published in 2000, and her translation with illuminations of the Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Poems from the Exeter Book, Uncommon Creatures, was published in 2019. She has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony, Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, and others. Her writings on inclusion and cultural diversity in arts education have been published in Open the Door, Education Week, and the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog, In 1992, she founded, with her husband, Ernest M. Fishman, Bright Hill Press & Literary Center of the Catskills. She led the development of the New York State Literary Web Site and Map in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts.

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