A poet’s meditation on loss, light, and legacy
Still Falling, English professor Jennifer Grotz’s fourth collection of poems, illuminates the connection between art and time.
English professor’s cotranslation of poetry wins PEN American Literary Award
Everything I Don’t Know, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, takes top honors for poetry in translation.
Jennifer Grotz will direct Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences
Poet Jennifer Grotz, a professor of English, has been named the next director of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. She is the first woman to serve as director of the oldest American conference for writers.
Jennifer Grotz receives Guggenheim fellowship for poetry
The author of four volumes of poetry, Grotz joins 20 other current Rochester faculty who have received Guggenheim Fellowships, which are among the most coveted academic awards.
Poetry in the age of the tweet
Can poetry thrive in an age of instant communication? As April’s National Poetry Month begins, University’s poetry faculty and students have found that the answer is an emphatic “yes.” The pace of digital life has only quickened over the last ten years since Twitter was founded, but the slower process of reading and crafting poetry continues, robustly, at Rochester.
New book novelizes rise and fall of Rochester’s infamous mediums
Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters, a new book published by the University’s Open Letter Press, details the rise and fall of the infamous 12 and 15-year-old mediums who convinced the world they could communicate with dead.
Poet Jennifer Grotz Receives Lillian Fairchild Award
Grotz’s second selection of poems, The Needle, “is one of the most affecting poetic explorations of locale and loss that I know,” says English department chair John Michael.