George Bilgere's seventh collection of poems, Blood Pages, came out from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2018. In 2020 Bilgere won the New Ohio Review Editor's Choice Poetry Award. He has received the May Swenson Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship through the Library of Congress, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. His work has appeared in such journals as Poetry, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Best American Poetry, Georgia Review, Hopkins Quarterly, and elsewhere. He teaches at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and two exceptionally fine little boys.

Other poems by George Bilgere in Verse Daily:
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..."

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