Vincent J. Tomeo was born and raised in Corona, Queens, NYC, and has lived in the most diversified urban area on the planet his entire life. He has recited his poetry everywhere across the United States, throughout Queens, and internationally, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Italy, Tanzania, Kenya, Spain, Morocco, Portugal, Germany, and France. Vincent J. Tomeo is a poet. Regarding poetry, his proudest accomplishments are the publication of his book on June 2, 2020, "My Cemetery Friends: A Garden of Encounters at Mount Saint Mary in Queens, New York" see blog: vincentjtomeo.com) 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, an NYC author, is 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." Another unique publication is Vincent's poem, "Idaho," framed, mounted, and displayed on a wall in the Idaho Potato Museum, Blackfoot, Id. In 2021, two of Mr. Tomeo's poems, "Belleau Wood 2020" and "Remembering A corona Marine, US Marine, Private William Frederick Moore," will be distributed and read in schools as part of the Aisne-Marne (WWI) Cemetery Project, Rue des Chevaliers Colomb, 02400 Belleau, France. Author of, My Cemetery Friends: A Garden of Encounter at Mount Saint Mary in Queens, New York, It is a celebration of life in a garden setting and much more, and The Usefulness of Hippopotamus: A Humorous Chapbook for a Trying Times. Humor is the best medicine. View blog; vincentjtomeo.com