On Feb. 19, Cornell Senior Visiting Lecturer Dan Rosenberg, English, was named Tompkins County’s 12th Poet Laureate, a role created to honor local outstanding poets and bring poetry beyond the page and into public life. Rosenberg, who has published six works as a poet and currently teaches creative writing at Cornell University, spoke about the importance of poetry and expressed gratitude for the recognition in an interview with The Sun. “The point of [poetry] is to build a community around it and to share that work with people for whom it will matter,” Rosenberg said. “Being named the poet laureate for the county feels like a recognition of that work…