Please consider participating in Tioga Arts Council’s (TAC) annual Poetry Out Loud initiative in honor of National Poetry Month. Traditionally, we invite all members of the community to select one to two poems, read them aloud and state why they chose the poem or explain its significance, and record an audio file to share with the community. However, this year, there are TWO WAYS to participate.
In-Person Reading
Local poets and writers are invited to read one to two poems on Saturday, March 15, at Tioga Arts Council, 179 Front Street, Owego, NY. Each person can read:
1 Poem, with proper acknowledgement by another poet
1 Original Poem
Both poems
Note: AI poetry is HIGHLY DISCOURAGED. However, if you want to read an AI generated poem it MUST BE acknowledged as such.
Audio Campaign
If you would like to participated in the Poetry Out Loud - Audio Campaign, record your poem(s) and email your file with a picture of the reader to tiogaartscouncil@gmail.com. Recordings for the audio campaign must be submitted by March 31. Then, it is shared on social media throughout the month of April.
If you'd like to listen to past recordings, HERE is a link to poems from 2020 and HERE is a link to poems from 2019.
Join us for a FREE poetry reading featuring the work of Alicia Rebecca Myers and Dan Rosenberg on Saturday, April 12, at 1:30 pm at Tioga Arts Council (TAC) - Gallery located at 179 Front St., Owego, NY 13827. Afterward, there will be a Q&A with books for sale. Join us!
ABOUT ALICIA REBECCA MYERS
Alicia Rebecca Myers is a poet and essayist who holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Writing Fellow and studied with poets Sharon Olds and Kimiko Hahn. Her poems and essays have appeared in places that include Best New Poets (three times), Creative Nonfiction, FIELD, Gulf Coast, SWWIM, december, Rattle, and The Rumpus. Her chapbook of poems, My Seaborgium (Brain Mill Press, 2015), was winner of the inaugural Mineral Point Chapbook Series. She has been the recipient of a Kimmel Harding Nelson residency for poetry and a Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference nonfiction scholarship, and she has most recently published poems in River Styx and Raleigh Review. Her first full-length manuscript, Warble, was a finalist for both the 2023 Akron Poetry Prize and the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, and it was chosen by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg as winner of the 2024 Birdy Poetry Prize (Meadowlark Press). She lives with her husband and nine year old son in upstate NY, where she helps high school seniors write their college application essays.
ABOUT DAN ROSENBERG
Dan Rosenberg’s books include Bassinet, cadabra, and The Crushing Organ, which won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize. He has also published the chapbooks A Thread of Hands and Thigh’s Hollow, which won the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, and he co-translated Slovenian poet Miklavž Komelj’s Hippodrome. Rosenberg teaches at Cornell University and lives in Ithaca, NY.
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DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 12, at 1:30 p.m.
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LOCATION: Tioga Arts Council, 179 Front St., Owego, NY
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For additional information, email tiogaartscouncil@gmail.com.
For the most up-to-date information and events, go to either: www.tiogaartcouncil.org or www.facebook.com/tiogaarts.council
Join us for a FREE poetry reading featuring the work of Christine Gelineau and Dante Di Stefano on Saturday, May 10, at 1:30 pm at Tioga Arts Council (TAC) - Gallery located at 179 Front St., Owego, NY 13827. Afterward, there will be a Q&A with books for sale. Join us!
ABOUT CHRISTINE GELINEAU
Christine Gelineau's latest book is the hybrid memoir ALMANAC: A MURMURATION, new this spring from Excelsior Editions, the trade imprint of SUNY Press. This is Gelineau's fourth book; she is the prize-winning author of three books of poetry, most recently Crave, and editor, with Jack B. Bedell, of the anthology French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets. Gelineau is past Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and teaches creative nonfiction and poetry at the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University, a program she helped to found.
Christine Gelineau grew up on quarter-acre lots in New England but, fresh out of college, she moved with her new husband to a 120-acre farm in upstate New York to raise Morgan horses and write poetry. Seventeen years into midwifing foals, tending to a large organic garden, and starting their own family, Christine returned to academia, earned her doctorate, and added teaching to her other activities. In ALMANAC, bewildered vixens; iced-in alligators; newborn foals; and prose poems evoking the natural world mix with national origin stories; gardening techniques learned from the Haudenosaunee; resilience in the face of Long COVID and brain surgery; urban vs. rural perspectives on water rights and wind turbine siting; and how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, about one another, and about the planet we all share shapes our own identities, our communities, and our attitudes and actions towards the environment. Framed by the seasons, ALMANAC speaks to these vital conversations about what it can mean to be human in ways that are lyrical, practical, spiritual, and life-affirming.
ABOUT DANTE DI STEFANO
Dante Di Stefano is the author of five poetry collections and a chapbook, including the book-length poem, The Widowing Radiance (Bordighera Press, 2025). His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2018, Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English Literature and his poetry has won many awards, including the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize (UK), the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, among others. He co-edited the anthology Misrepresented People (NYQ Books, 2018) and lives in Endwell, NY with his wife (the world famous and universally acclaimed executive director) and two children.
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DATE & TIME: Saturday, May 10, at 1:30 p.m.
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LOCATION: Tioga Arts Council, 179 Front St., Owego, NY
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For additional information, email tiogaartscouncil@gmail.com.
For the most up-to-date information and events, go to either: www.tiogaartcouncil.org or www.facebook.com/tiogaarts.council
The Tioga Arts Council celebrates world literature in translation as part of the global event International Translation Day, on September 27 at the Tioga Arts Council, 179 Front Street in Owego and starts at 1:30 pm. If you’re interested in participating contact Erin Riddle erin@erinriddle.com.
ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATION DAY
In 2017, The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to recognize the role of translation in transnational communication and understanding and in fostering peace. The same resolution declared September 30 as UN International Translation Day, now celebrated annually around the world. September 30 was chosen for the date because it is the feast of St. Jerome, who is considered the patron saint of translators.
The Tioga Arts Council’s participation in this global event celebrates literary artists from around the world, their works in translation, and the translators who make their works accessible.