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.
DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 12, at 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Tioga Arts Council, 179 Front St., Owego, NY
For additional information, email tiogaartscouncil@gmail.com.
A SPECIAL THANKS
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.