Poets at the Tang: Reading Scheduled for April 19

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College recently announced Poets in the Museum, a poetry reading scheduled for Sunday, April 19 at 3 p.m. in the galleries of the Malloy Wing. 

Organized and hosted by Saratoga Springs Poet Laureate Jay Rogoff, the program brings together regional poets responding to artwork in the Tang exhibition “All These Growing Things.”

Presenting poets are Nicola Marae Allain, Peg Boyers, Joe Bruchac, Catherine Clarke, David Graham, Mary Kathryn Jablonski, Susan Jefts, Marilyn McCabe, Lucyna Prostko, Krista Rivera, Jay Rogoff, Mary Sanders Shartle, and Melora Wolff.

Together, these writers bring a range of voices and perspectives to the museum, including poets, essayists, editors, teachers, and artists whose work is rooted in the Capital Region and beyond. Their readings will offer audiences new ways of experiencing the ideas, images, and questions raised by “All These Growing Things,” an exhibition that explores questions of becoming and belonging through work from the Tang collection.

Rogoff, whose two-year term as Saratoga Springs Poet Laureate began Jan. 1, has organized the program as an invitation to look closely and respond through language. The event continues the Tang’s spring exploration of poetry. It follows the museum’s Feb. 1 reading with April Bernard, Peg Boyers, and Chase Twichell, as well as the April 2 reading by Jacob Shores-Argüello in “Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest.”

The event is free and open to the public. 

For information on planning your visit and accessibility, visit tang.skidmore.edu or call the Tang Visitor Services Desk at 518-580-8080.