About the Author

Vincent J. Tomeo is a poet, archivist, historian, and community activist.

For 36 years, he taught American history at a New York City public high school. He has formerly volunteered at the 9/11 Tribute Center Museum at Ground Zero.

Vincent is published in the New York Times, Comstock Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Edgz, Spires, Tiger’s Eye, ByLine, Mudfish, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, The Neo-Victorian/Cochlea, The Latin Staff Review, The Evening Street Review, and Grand- mother Earth (VII thru XI).

Feel free to contact me at: 1 (718) 961-6208

Vincent has recited his poetry everywhere across the United States, throughout Queens, New York City, and internationally; South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Italy, Tanzania, Kenya, Spain, Morocco, Portugal, Germany, and France.

To date, he has 908 published poems/essays, winner of 105 awards, and 135 public readings.

Regarding poetry, his proudest accomplishments are winning Honorable Mention in the Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Competition and having His poem, “A View from a Tower in Calabria, Italy,” sculpted into marble in Italy. (You can read that story online, “Times Ledger: Flushing poet honored in Italy. Immortal Words, poem sculpted into marble, March 24-30, 2017.”)

Vincent J. Tomeo, NYC author, widely published in both the US and internationally. In July 2018, Vincent was awarded “The Best Overall Free Verse” by United Poets Laureate International World Brotherhood and Peace Through Poetry, World Congress of Poets, Bangkok, Thailand, for his poem, “I Visited the Grave of Marine Michael D. Glover.” In February 2020, two of Mr. Tomeo’s poems, “Belleau Wood 2020,” and “Remembering a Corona Marine, Private William Frederick Moore,” will be distributed and read in schools as part of the Aisne-Marne Cemetery Project, Rue des Chevaliers Colomb, 02400 Belleau, France. Another unique publication is Vincent’s poem, “Idaho,” framed, mounted, and displayed on a wall in the Idaho Potato Museum, Blackfoot, Id.