About Vincent J. Tomeo
Thirty-six years teaching American history, thirty years walking one cemetery in Queens, and a filing cabinet full of poems that made it into print.
The man in the garden
He taught American history in a New York City public high school for thirty-six years, and he has spent most of the years since in archives, cemeteries, and reading rooms. He also volunteered at the 9/11 Tribute Center Museum at Ground Zero, where the work of remembering is done out loud.
His poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Comstock Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Tiger's Eye, Mudfish, The Evening Street Review, and Grandmother Earth, among others. He has read his work across the United States and in South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Italy, Tanzania, Kenya, Spain, Morocco, Portugal, Germany, and France.
When he is asked what he is proudest of, he names two things: an honorable mention in the Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Competition, and a poem of his carved into marble in Italy, where it stays.
Take the walk yourself
Start with the garden. My Cemetery Friends is in paperback now, and the hippopotamus poems are a short, funny follow-up for anyone who needs one.
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ISBN-13 978-1778833526 · Bookside Press · May 13, 2024