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.
- DATE & TIME: Saturday, May 10, 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.