Jay Rogoff is poet laureate of Saratoga Springs, New York. His seven books of poetry include the Washington Prize-winning The Cutoff (Word Works), and The Long Fault, The Art of Gravity, Venera, Enamel Eyes, and, most recently, Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems, all from LSU Press. His essay collection, Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods, also from LSU, won the Lewis P. Simpson Award for outstanding literary criticism.