Roger Greenwald

Roger Greenwald attended the City College of New York and The Poetry Project workshop at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery before completing graduate degrees at the University of Toronto. The most recent of his five books of poems are An Opening in the Vertical World (Black Widow Press, 2024) and Keener Sounds: A Suite (Black Widow Press, 2025), a sonnet sequence with paintings by Arielle Sandler. He’s won the CBC Literary Prize twice and the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award from EXILE. (Updated 10/2026)