Join us Sunday, February 1, at 3 pm, for a reading by three nationally acclaimed poets, April Bernard, Peg Boyers, and Chase Twichell. They have all, as Twichell has said in an interview, “bent their lives in the pursuit of poetry.”
The reading is organized and hosted by Saratoga Springs Poet Laureate Jay Rogoff, whose two-year term runs January 1, 2026, through the end of 2027. This is the first in a series of poetry readings he is organizing at different venues in Saratoga Springs. A Q&A and book signing follow the reading.
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. It is free and open to the public.
About the Poets
April Bernard’s The World Behind the World, her sixth book of poems, was published in 2023 by W.W. Norton; previous collections are Brawl & Jag, Romanticism, Swan Electric, Psalms, and Blackbird Bye Bye, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her novel Miss Fuller was short-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award; she has also published short fiction in Little Star, Electric Literature, and The Southampton Review, and is a contributor of reviews and essays to The New York Review of Books and Book Post, among other journals. She teaches at Skidmore College and is currently at work on a volume of new and selected poems.
Peg Boyers is author of four books of poems: Hard Bread, Honey With Tobacco, To Forget Venice, and The Album. She teaches poetry and translation workshops at Skidmore College, Columbia University, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute and is Executive Editor of Salmagundi Magazine.
Chase Twichell has published eight books of poetry, most recently Things as It Is (Copper Canyon, 2018). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010), won both the Kingsley Tufts Award from Claremont Graduate University and the Balcones Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships and awards from the NEA, the Artists Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A new book is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2026. She lives in Saratoga Springs and the Adirondacks.