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Bertha Rogers
Poet and Visual Artist Bertha Rogers has published more
than 250 poems in journals and anthologies, and in the
interdisciplinary collection Even the Hemlock: Poems,
Illuminations, Reliquaries; chapbooks The Fourth
Beast; A House of Corners, and The Reason
of Trees; and full-length poetry collection
Sleeper, You Wake. Her translation of Beowulf
was published in 2000, and she is currently translating
the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book.
Her poem “Rhomboid” won PhiloPhonema’s Lyric Recovery
Award in 2001, selected by Alfred Corn; and her poem
“Truck Stand” was selected by John Ashbery for display
in the Albany International Airport to celebrate the
Millay Colony’s 3Oth anniversary. She has won residency
fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony,
Caldera, Jentel, Hawthorne International Writers
Retreat, and Hedgebrook. She is Delaware County’s first
Poet Laureate.
Bertha Rogers’s paintings, illuminations, and artist’s
books have been shown in more than 200 juried and solo
shows throughout the US and abroad, and she has received
several NYSCA Decentralization and NYFA SOS grants for
her interdisciplinary work, including a 2006 award for
her forthcoming solo exhibit, “The Stones and Bones of
Delaware County.” In 2006 she was the recipient of an
A.E. Ventures Grant
http://www.brighthillpress.org.
She founded Bright Hill Press in Treadwell, NY, now
celebrating its 15th year, and serves as BHP
program director, in partnership with NYSCA, for the
New York State Literary Web Site and Literary Map,
nyslittree.org.
Bertha Rogers has been a teaching artist, on and off,
since the 1970s. She teaches through the DCMO/ONC BOCES
AIE programs, with arts organizations in upstate New
York, and she is a CROP artist as well as a Teachers and
Writers Collaborative artist. She has been a
poet-in-residence at Hartwick College, SUNY Potsdam,
NCCC, and Wells College, and has taught creative writing
at Hartwick. Through Bright Hill she is leading a series
of Museum Research, Writing, and Visual Arts programs in
2007.
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Bertha Rogers Acceptance Speech
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