Poets in the Museum

About this event

Join us Thursday, November 19, at 6 pm in the galleries for a poetry reading by regional poets responding to artwork in A Feeling of With. This is the second of three readings at the Tang organized and hosted by Saratoga Springs Poet Laureate Jay Rogoff, whose two-year term runs through the end of 2027. The first Poets in the Museum reading took place April 19, 2026.

This event is free and open to the public.

Presenting Poets:

Andy Fogle is poetry editor of Salvation South. He is the author of Mother Countries (2023); Across From Now (Grayson, 2020); and eight chapbooks of poetry, including Arc & Seam: Poems of Farouk Goweda (Finishing Line, 2022), co-translated with Walid Abdallah; and Telekinesis (Ghost City, 2025), with Hope Smith LeGro. Born in Virginia Beach, he spent years in the DC area and currently lives with his family in upstate New York, where he teaches high school.

Maggie Greaves’s poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Seneca Review, Literary Matters, North American Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the scholarly book Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2023). She is Associate Professor of English at Skidmore College.

Elaine Handley is a poet and writer whose work explores the contradictions of human relationships and the profundities of ordinary life. A Professor Emeritus at SUNY Empire State University, she is the author of the newly published poetry collection Heartbreak Grass (Kelsay Books, 2026). She leads community writing workshops grounded in the conviction that creativity fosters healing, connection, and resilience.

Hajar Hussaini is the author of Disbound: Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2022) and the recipient of a 2026 Whiting Award in Poetry. Her upcoming translations from Persian include Death and His Brother: A Novel by Khosraw Mani (Syracuse University Press, 2027), which won a 2025 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and Wounded Vita Nuda: Poems by Maral Taheri (Deep Vellum, 2027), which won the 2024 Mo Habib Translation Prize. She was a 2025 MacDowell fellow and a 2025 Baldwin for the Arts Fellow. Hussaini also co-curates the Salon Salvage performance and reading series in Troy, New York. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is an assistant teaching professor of English at Skidmore College and lives in Saratoga Springs.

Kathleen McCoy is Professor Emerita of SUNY Adirondack and has published two books of poetry—Green and Burning (Word Tech, 2016) and Ringing the Changes, (Finishing Line, 2017)—and two chapbooks, with more in the works. She has long taken inspiration from poet-statesmen like Walt Whitman and Adrienne Rich.

Suzanne S. Rancourt (of Abenaki/Huron, Quebecois, and Scottish descent) is a USMC/Army Veteran and a nominee of both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is the author of Billboard in the Clouds (Northwestern University Press, 2004), murmurs at the gate (Unsolicited Press, 2019), Old Stones, New Roads (Main Street Rag, 2021), and Songs of Archilochus (Unsolicited Press, 2023). Billboard in the Clouds won a Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award, and murmurs at the gate won the 2023 Poetry of Modern Conflict Award. She is an expressive arts therapist, a drug and alcohol counselor, and a Saratoga County Veterans Peer Mentor.

Jordan Smith, a recipient of grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Little Black Train (Three Mile Harbor Press, 2020) and Cold Night, Long Dog (Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press, 2022). He has also worked collaboratively with artist Walter Hatke on several projects. He recently retired after more than forty years of teaching at Union College.

Natalya Sukhonos, a native of Odesa, Ukraine, is a multilingual, speaking Russian, English, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2015 and 2020 and the Best New Poets 2015 anthology. She is the author of Parachute (Kelsay Books of Aldrich Press, 2016) and A Stranger Home (Moon Pie Press, 2020). Sunlight Trapped in Stone (Green Writers Press, 2026) is her third book.

Barbara Ungar is the author of six books, most recently After Naming the Animals (Word Works, 2024). Her honors include the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press, the Gival Poetry Prize, and inclusion in Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2015 and 2019. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian.

Nancy White is the author of four poetry collections: Sun, Moon, Salt (Word Works, 1992), winner of the Washington Prize; Detour (Tamarack Editions, 2010), Ask Again Later (Tiger Bark, 2017), and the forthcoming What She Said. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Review, FIELD, New England Review, Ploughshares, Rhino, and many other publications. She serves as editor-in-chief at The Word Works in Washington, DC.