Friday, November 8, 2019

Bertha Rogers, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Bertha Rogers, poet, translator, and visual artist, is the author most recently of Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019). Her other poetry collections include Heart Turned Back (Salmon); Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen); and several chapbooks and interdisciplinary collections. 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. She serves as Poet Laureate of Delaware County, NY.