ITHACA — The Tompkins County Legislature has appointed Dan Rosenberg the county’s next poet laureate.
Rosenberg is a visiting senior lecturer at Cornell University. He lives in Ithaca with his wife, poet Alicia Rebecca Myers, and their son Miles.
“I believe poetry offers us valuable opportunities to slow down, to reflect, and to extend our empathy, and I’m excited to share these gifts with our whole community,” Rosenberg said in a release.
He is the author of “Bassinet,” “cadabra,” and “The Crushing Organ.” He has also written two chapbooks, “Thigh’s Hollow” and “A Thread of Hands,” and co-translated Miklavž Komelj’s “Hippodrome.”
He has won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest.
Rosenberg is the Tompkins County’s 12th poet laureate and succeeds Janie E. Bibbie, who served from 2023 through 2024.
“We received nominations for nine outstanding local poets, each with unique ideas about how to put poetry in service to the community,” said Megan Barber, executive director of the Community Arts Partnership, which administers the selection process. “We are so excited about Dan’s appointment.”
