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 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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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.
As part of the IF YOU KEEP A STAR IN A CAGE installation and immersive experience by Jess Petrylak, the Artist will offer a FREE generative poetry workshop and reading designed to explore the intersection of personal identity and celebrity culture, using writing as a means of processing collective memory and the societal obsession with fame. Prompts include: Tabloid Erasure Poems, Digital Diary Entries, and a Selfie Sonnet/Mirro Poem. Pink fuzzy pens, hand mirrors, and tabloids provided.
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DATE & TIME: Wednedsay, June 11, from 6 - 7:30 PM
LOCATION: Cloud Croft Studios - Schoolhouse, 1003 Sanford Rd., Owego.
REGISTRATION: This event is FREE but registration is required. Sign up at: https://forms.gle/Ygf4WMcHM6t2nJVr9
To see a full description of the installation and other special events, go to: https://www.tiogaartscouncil.org/iykasiac
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.