About George Bilgere and Iron Horse Literary Review

Today's poem is "Misasa Bridge"

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George Bilgere and his family divide their time between Cleveland, Ohio, and Berlin, Germany. He has also lived in Tokyo and Bilbao, Spain. His seventh collection of poetry is Blood Pages (2018). He has received the Midland Authors Prize, the May Swenson Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, an NEA grant, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He has given poetry readings at the Library of Congress, the 92nd Street Y in New York, and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. His work is familiar to NPR listeners through his appearances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac. He teaches at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and two fine little boys.
Other poems by George Bilgere in Verse Daily:
May 22, 2020: "Chernobyl" "I wish I were in Chernobyl today...."
April 15, 2014: "Musial" "My father once sold a Chevy..."
February 27, 2010: "Zero" "First it was five above, then two..."
August 2, 2008: "Sunset Knoll" "When the smoking hot barrista..."
Books by George Bilgere:

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November 25, 2020: "Our Last House" by Sarah Carey
November 24, 2020: "Misasa Bridge" by Chris Ellery
February 19, 2020: "Venus's Answer to Cupid's Complaint" by Jade Hurter
February 18, 2020: "On Voting for Barak Obama with a Nat Turner T Shirt On" by Reginald Dwayne Betts
February 10, 2020: "At the End of My Marriage, I Think of Something My Daughter Said about Trees" by Maggie Smith
April 2, 2019: "There Is a Snake" Bess Cooley
April 1, 2019: "Talking to Other Women after the Election" Katherine Riegel
February 22, 2016: "Benediction Ending with Stray Dogs" by Andrew Miller
February 21, 2016: "Chorus" by John E. Glowney
December 16, 2014: "July 13, 1946" by Jessica Jacobs
June 9, 2014: "Pulling the Arrow Out" by Carl Phillips
June 8, 2012: "Winter and Spring" by Randolph Thomas
March 15, 2012: "Places that have become me" by Bob Hicok
June 11, 2010: "Monster-Life" by Nathan Anderson
June 24, 2009: "Resurrection Fern" by Sara Johnson
June 21, 2009: "The Child and the Parent" by Ted Kooser
June 20, 2009: "The Fugitive Kind" by Austin Hummell
January 18, 2009: "Ovid in Exile" by John Hart
January 17, 2009: "Possum Nocturne" by Doug Ramspeck
October 13, 2008: "Over a Ballpoint" by Allan Peterson
May 15, 2008: "A wedding night" by Randolph Thomas
May 14, 2008: "Lost in the Heart of the Concert" by Pattiann Rogers
February 28, 2008: "Fold, Fold" by Mary Crow
February 25, 2008: "Anubis" by Alan Shapiro
September 19, 2007: "Elemental: Nitrogen" by Suzanne Heyd
May 18, 2007: "Autumn Again" by Michael Pettit
December 16, 2006: "Sky: An Inquiry" by Leslie Ullman
April 12, 2005: "Cardinal Virtue" by Nicky Beer
September 7, 2004: "Tantalus" by Robert B. Shaw
March 28, 2004: "Moving the Moon" by Deborah Bogen
September 22, 2003: "Aubade" by Richard Foerster
September 20, 2003: "Goodwill" by Elizabeth McLagan

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