George Bilgere | Poetry and Poetry Readings

“A welcome breath of fresh, American air.” —Billy Collins

“There’s nothing George doesn’t take to heart, whether it’s a boy watching his father drink himself to death in a hotel room or a grown man who watches his family at play and marvels at the lucky breaks that have led him to this quiet happiness. Nobody captures the sorrows and beauties of this world better.”

—David Kirby, author of More Than This: Poems

“Cheeky nephew of Billy Collins, brash blunt brother of Tony Hoagland, George Bilgere writes the poetry of frontal candor about desire, nostalgia, and sweet sad vanity. The rest of us professor poetry guys maybe better give up writing funny-ruefully about our typical lucky lives, because Bilgere has the territory so well-covered.”

—Mark Halliday, author of Thresherphobe

“George Bilgere is an absolute whiz at the twists and turns of the glorious American language, the flexible American syntax, as spoken by everybody up and down the great chain of Americanness in our bewitched century. Oh what a pleasure to watch him spin those sentences.”

—Alicia Ostriker, author of Waiting for the Light

“A welcome breath of fresh, American air.” —Billy Collins

For information about poetry readings or reprinting George’s poems, please contact him at:
gbilgere@jcu.edu

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WORDPLAY
George and John Donoghue have hosted their poetry radio broadcast, Wordplay, for fifteen years! You can listen to “the Car Talk of poetry” Fridays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on WJCU.

“A welcome breath of fresh, American air.” —Billy Collins

For information about poetry readings or reprinting George’s poems, please contact him at: gbilgere@jcu.edu

Sign up for news and updates from George Bilgere:

WORDPLAY George and John Donoghue have hosted their poetry radio broadcast, Wordplay, for fifteen years! You can listen to “the Car Talk of poetry” Fridays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on WJCU.

For information about poetry readings or reprinting George’s poems, please contact him at:
gbilgere@jcu.edu

Sign up for news and updates
from George Bilgere:

WORDPLAY
George and John Donoghue have hosted their poetry radio broadcast, Wordplay, for fifteen years! You can listen to “the Car Talk of poetry” Fridays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on WJCU.