Christine Gelineau is the author of three full-length books of poetry: CRAVE from NYQ Books; the book-length sequence APPETITE FOR THE DIVINE, published as the Editor’s Choice for the Robert McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press and REMORSELESS LOYALTY, winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, also from Ashland Poetry Press.
A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Gelineau’s poetry and essays have been widely published in journals and online in venues such as Verse Daily and Rattle. Three of her essays have been cited as Notable Essays in Best American Essays. Her creative nonfiction manuscript “Almanac” was a finalist in Trio House Press’s 2023 Aurora Polaris Award.
Gelineau teaches poetry and creative nonfiction in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. Though now retired from that position, she served for many years as Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University.
Christine will be Reading: April 20, 2024 at 1:30 pm at Tioga Arts Council
179 Front St., Owego, New York 13827 607.687.0785 www.tiogaartscouncil.org
Poems
- Time is a Horse on Verse Daily
- Slieve League on Poetry and Places site
- Kneading Bread While Dying on Rattle. Also on Rattle, Breaking Babies
- Seawall on Parks and Points
- Accident on Broad Street
- Carpe Diem on Plant-Human Quarterly
- Grace on Indolent Books; scroll down to poem 241
- First the Flood, then the Fire, the Fire, the Flood, the Earth’s Shawl of Air, the Hunger on Silver Birch Press
- Rocky Point: First Love on Silver Birch Press
- Act as Object collaboration with artist Leah Hardy on In Quire
Essays
- Courtesy of the Gravedigger in New York Times. (Scroll down to Dec. 21)
- My Good Name on Broad Street
- Excerpt from Finding My Own Way to the Garden in Tiferet
- Meditation on a Brush Pile, Plant-Human Quarterly
Interviews, Reviews, & Readings
- Reading Five Poems from Remorseless Loyalty for Poetry Vlog
- Interview with Carolyn LeBlanc on Poetry Matters
- Video interview on WSKG, local PBS station
- Review of Crave by Grace Cavalieri in Washington Independent Review of Books