New Saratoga Poet Laureate to Host Poetry Repair Café

SARATOGA SPRINGS — New Saratoga Springs poet laureate Jay Rogoff will host a Poetry Repair Café at Northshire Bookstore on Sunday, Jan. 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will allow local poets to meet with Rogoff to help improve or fix their poems-in-progress.

“Sometimes a poet just needs a second pair of eyes—or ears—on a poem to realize what kinds of changes might help improve it,” Rogoff said.

Rogoff is an award-winning author of eight books. His most recent collection of poems is “Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems.” He was named the Spa City’s second poet laureate at a Sept. 16, 2025 city council meeting. His two-year term begins this month.

“Jay Rogoff was the very first poet to give a reading at Northshire’s Saratoga store after we opened this location in 2013, and we’ve welcomed him back many times since then,” said Northshire’s Events Manager Rachel Person. “All of us at Northshire are thrilled to be launching this new partnership, and facilitating this opportunity for local poets to work directly with Saratoga’s new poet laureate.”

Rogoff plans to hold the Poetry Repair Café on the first Sunday of every month. For further information, call Northshire Bookstore at 518-682-4200 or visit the store’s website, www.northshire.com.