George Wallace
George Wallace is Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, first poet laureate of Suffolk County, LI NY, author of 45 books and chapbooks of poetry, published in the US, UK, Italy, Macedonia and India, and a spoken word performer with eight albums of his work released.
A prominent figure on the NYC poetry performance scene, he travels internationally to perform, lead writing workshops, and lecture on literary topics.
A former student of W.D. Snodgrass (BA, Syracuse U) and Marvin Bell (MFA, Pacific U), he teaches writing at Pace University (NYC), and has done research residencies at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC. In 2024 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from CIESART/Royal Academy of Spain and in 2025, was winner — along with Italian musical collaborators Ana Spasic and Francesco Paladino — of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Warard.
He has worked as a Peace Corps volunteer, health care administrator, community organizer, community journalist, active duty medical military officer and local historian. His work is archived at the Special Sections Collection, LI Studies Institute, Hofstra University.
George is editor of Poetrybay.com, Long Island Quarterly, and Walt’s Corner, a weekly poetry column in The Long Islander, a community newspaper founded by Walt Whitman in 1838. He edited the 2022 Blue Light Press Anthology ‘FROM THE INSIDE: NYC through the eyes of the poets who live here’; is publisher of FLASH BOULEVARD, and creator of POETS BUILDING BRIDGES: A Triangulation Project, pairing groups of poets worldwide in zoom sessions hosted by the Walt Whitman Birthplace. In 2023 he launched Radiopoet!que, which surveys poetry in popular music across the globe, as well as providing a blog review of radio shows and podcasts in the US that feature poetry.