George Bilgere

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George Bilgere (b. 1951) is an American poet.

He grew up in Riverside, California, and earned his BA at the University of California, Riverside. He received his MA in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and earned a Ph.D. in contemporary British and American Poetry from the University of Denver in 1988.

Bilgere has received grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Ohio Arts Council and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at John Carroll University.

Contents 1 Works 2 Poems in Periodicals 3 Awards 4 External links

[edit] Works

• The Going, poetry (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994)
• Big Bang, poetry (Providence: Copper Beach Press, 1999)
• The Good Kiss, poetry (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2002)
• Haywire, poetry (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006)

[edit] Poems in Periodicals

His poems have appeared in such publications as Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, Agni, The Iowa Review, The Sewanee Review, The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Chicago Review, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner.

[edit] Awards

• May Swenson Poetry Award (2006)
• The Ohioana Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award (2006)
• Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature (2003)
• Devins Award for Poetry (1994)

[edit] External links

• Poet Bilgere's Web site