2012 New York Senior Poet Laureate Update
VINCENT J. TOMEO’S IDENTITY-THEFT
The costly ongoing attempt by Vincent J. Tomeo to resolve his identity-theft matter is still in the courts. It recently drew public attention in a feature by Paul DeBenedetto on Oct. 19 in the online journal info.comNewYork. Full story was at: dnainfo.com/newyork/20121019/…/former-queens-teacher-cyber-bullied-for-months-lawsuit-alleges . Highlights are excerpted here.
“Vincent Tomeo, 65, a self-described poet and history teacher . . . says unnamed people harassed him by posting a litany of comments on at least nine different websites . . . . ‘When I walked into his office to ask him a homework question, he was all flush purple and unresponsive,’ one comment on RateMyTeachrs.com allegedly said. ‘His head was tilted backwards, he was snoring and mumbling, and he even urinated himself.’
“The harassment went on for about six months, Tomeo said, and he even had to contact RateMyTeacher.com to have the comments removed. . .
Tomeo said the offenders created a fake account . . . and posted poems in his name. . . . according to the complaint filed in Queens Supreme Court. . . in one doctored image, Tomeo is shown ‘injecting drugs into his arm’ . . . He and his lawyer, Joseph M. Brunner, are
planning to subpoena internet service providers to find out the commenters’ and posters’ identities.“
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News/Releases by Senior Poets
Carol Leavitt Altieri, Connecticut: Presently I'm trying to publish a book of poetry, Chronicles of Humans With Nature, and have sent it off to two publishers and have entered some of the poems in various contests..
Lyla Faircloth Ellzey, Florida: Recently published a collection of short stories She is Woman--courageous, compelling and captivating (and sometimes outrageus.
T. Leona Tollison, Ph.D, South Carolina: I have a book, Beautiful Poems Beautiful Places with a
Different Twist. None are modern poems. On Xlibris and Amazon.com.
Betty Lipton, Florida: I'm having a small chapbook, On a Wednesday my Childhood Died, published by Bear House Publishing.
Alexandra Moss Zannis, Indiana: A feature about her life as a singer and her book Categorically Speaking was in the Neighbors Sunday Online Section Oct. 23, 2012 at www.news-sentinel.com.
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