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Welcome
Hopefully you will enjoy your visit to my poetry site and come away with some insights about how my mind works. That sounds scary. Following is a potted biography and some links to other works of mine elsewhere.
Christopher T. George was born in Liverpool, England in 1948 and first emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1955. He went back to Liverpool for a refresher on his Scouse accent, living with his grandparents while attending Rose Lane and Quarry Bank Schools. Chris returned to the U.S.A. in 1968 and has lived there ever since. He now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, near Johns Hopkins University with his wife Donna and two cats.
Chris’s poetry has been published in Poet Lore, Lite, Maryland Poetry Review, Smoke, and Bogg, and online at Crescent Moon Journal, Electric Acorn, Melic Review, Painted Moon Review, Pierian Springs, the poetry (WORM), and Web Del Sol Review. Chris is the Editor of Desert Moon Review http://www.thedesertmoonreview.com/ and an editor at Writer’s Block Poetry Workshop http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/. He is co-editor, with Jim Doss, of the electronic and print magazine Loch Raven Review, http://www.lochravenreview.net/. Chris also has a blog at http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/ and a Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/christophertgeorge.
Chris’s poetry is featured in Poets Gone Wild: An Internet Anthology from Wild Poetry Press (2005) and at The Hypertexts, http://www.thehypertexts.com/.
He is also the lyricist for Jack — The Musical, written with French composer Erik Sitbon (CD available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/asu3), and he is an editor at Ripperologist magazine published in the UK, http://www.ripperologist.biz.
A poetry cycle by Chris, “The O’Malley Poems” recently appeared in Crescent Moon Journal: http://www.thedesertmoonreview.com/cmj/summer04/cmj04_series.htm. His parody of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” called “The Waste Land by Orson Welles” was published in Melic Review, September 2002: http://www.melicreview.com/archive/iss18/ctgeorge.html.
Two poems by Chris on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, together with a review of the recent film “Sylvia” and a memoir on Plath’s impact on Chris’s writing, appeared in Poetry Kit Magazine 4: http://www.poetrykit.org/pkmag/pkmag4/001.htm
A spotlight interview with Chris and a recent selection of his poems appears in the “structure” issue of Triplopia Volume VI, No. 1, “Knives, Narratives, and Anthems: Shedding Light on the Stories of our Past.” Go to: http://www.triplopia.org/inside.cfm?ct=681.
Chris is the founding editor of the Journal of the War of 1812 published by the War of 1812 Consortium and an organizer of the Consortium’s symposium series. He is the author of Baltimore Close Up from Arcadia Publishers (1998) and Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay from White Mane Publishers (2000). Various historical articles appear on the net, including a series on Baltimore monuments at http://www.baltimoremd.com/monuments/monumental.html .
Chris’s essay The Eroica Riddle: Did Napoleon Remain Beethoven’s “Hero”? appeared in Napoleonic Scholarship: The Journal of the International Napoleonic Society, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1998: http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/scholarship98/c_eroica.html.
