Bertha Rogers, poet, translator, and visual artist, has published poems and translations in literary journals and anthologies, including the recent (which she also edited)
Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers and
Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Her poetry collections include
Heart Turned Back (Salmon);
Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen); and several chapbooks and interdisciplinary collections. Her illustrated translation of
Beowulf was published in 2000, and her translation with illuminations of the Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Poems from the Exeter Book,
Uncommon Creatures, was published in 2019. She has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony, Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, and others. Her writings on inclusion and cultural diversity in arts education have been published in
Open the Door, Education Week, and the Poetry Foundation’s
Harriet Blog. Through Bright Hill Press & Literary Center of the Catskills,
www.brighthillpress.org, a literary organization founded by Rogers and her husband, Ernest M. Fishman, in 1992, she led the development of the New York State Literary Web Site and Literary Map in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (
www.nyslittree.org). She serves as Poet Laureate of Delaware County, NY; and she is a member of the selection panel for the Empire State Writers Hall of Fame.
