TAC to host literary offerings

The Tioga Arts Council will be hosting several literary offerings in April.

Poetry Out Loud began on April 1. TAC will share audio poems from members of the community on Facebook.

TAC is pleased to start off its Literary Series with a free poetry reading featuring the work of Alicia Rebecca Myers and Dan Rosenberg on Saturday, April 12, at 1:30 p.m. at 179 Front St. in Owego.

Creative Symposium Series: Publishing Your Creative Work – A Panel

Overview: Publishing Your Creative Work – A Panel, welcomes writers of all disciplines to this discussion forum to learn about the process of getting their creative work published. Topics include selecting suitable platforms, navigating the publishing industry, exploring literary journals, evaluating self-publishing, and planning promotion and marketing strategies.

The symposium will take place on Saturday, April 26, from 6 to 8 p.m. at CloudCroft Studios – Schoolhouse, 1003 Sanford Rd., Owego.

This event is free, but registration is required at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAuZ0pKV3B_MdYd2VHX-uOpTOsU0H-zOzPbIh6ICerNntITg/viewform.

The emcee and Panelists include the following.

Dante Di Stefano (Emcee) 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 resides in Endwell, N.Y. with his wife and two children.

Tom Bouman is the author of Dry Bones in the Valley, which won an Edgar Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has written two additional books in the Henry Farrell series set in northeastern Pennsylvania: Fateful Mornings and The Bramble and the Rose. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and children and is a partner with the law firm Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP.

Jen DeGregorio is the author of the poetry collection What to Wear Out. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Literary Hub, Paterson Literary Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Spoon River Poetry Review, Third Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), and elsewhere. She is the associate director of creative writing at Binghamton University (SUNY). A former senior editor of Poets & Writers, she holds a PhD in English from Binghamton and an MFA in creative writing from Hunter College (CUNY).

Roger Hanson is a seasoned publishing executive, artist, entrepreneur, and interior designer with a diverse career spanning media, publishing, human resources, interior design, and the arts. As co-founder of Limitlessness Publishing, he and his husband, author Story Waters, published over 20 self-help and self-empowerment titles, with 10 achieving best-seller status in the self-help and spirituality categories.

Roger later brought his expertise to Callisto Media, one of the world’s largest nonfiction publishers, where he served as Vice President of People until its acquisition by Penguin Random House in 2023. A creative at heart, Roger’s work as an artist organically birthed an equal passion for interior design, which led him to launch Owego Home, an interior design studio and retail showroom in historic Owego, New York.

Ralph Pennel is the author of A World Less Perfect for Dying In, published by Cervena Barva Press. Ralph’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Ocean State Review, The Iowa Review, F(r)iction, South Dakota Review, The Worcester Review, Elm Leaves Journal, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and others. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best Small Fictions Anthology, and a Best of the Net award. Ralph curates the Triple-A Reading Series, in partnership with the Broome County Arts Council, which is run from the Artisan Gallery in Binghamton, New York. Ralph is the founding editor, fiction editor, and Editor-in-Chief of Midway Journal. He teaches writing and literature at Miami Dade College and lives and writes in Upstate New York.

These events are funded in part by Poets & Writers and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.