Ithaca-based poet Dan Rosenberg, senior visiting lecturer of literatures in English in the College of Arts and Sciences, became the 12th Poet Laureate of Tompkins County in February, appointed by the county legislature for a two-year term.
“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,” he said.
Rosenberg is the author of three books of poetry: “Bassinet” (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022), “cadabra” (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), and “The Crushing Organ” (Dream Horse Press, 2012). He has also written two chapbooks, “Thigh's Hollow” (Omnidawn, 2015) and “A Thread of Hands” (Tilt Press, 2010), and he co-translated Miklavž Komelj's “Hippodrome” (Zephyr Press, 2016). His work has won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest.
Before teaching at Cornell this year, Rosenberg was chair of the English department at Wells College, where he ran a visiting writers series, curated the national Wells College Press Chapbook Contest and established the Visiting Artists Program.
As poet laureate, Rosenberg will partner with organizations and institutions around the country to promote poetry through readings, writing events, and other activities. He said he is particularly looking forward to working with the Ithaca Children’s Garden, Congregation Tikkun v’Or and Ithaca’s McGraw House. He will participate in the 2025 Spring Writes Literary Festival and other activities organized by the Community Arts Partnership.
Previous poets laureate of Tompkins County include A&S faculty member Gail Holst-Warhaft, Ph.D. ’91, adjunct professor of comparative literature (A&S).
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