George Bilgere

George Bilgere (born 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. He also hosts Wordplay, a spoken-word radio program that has been called "the Car Talk of poetry." His poems have appeared in such publications as Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, Agni,...