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| George Ellenbogen |
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George
Ellenbogen, a native of Montreal, Canada, studied literature at McGill
University and Tufts University in Massachusetts. Between degrees, he
worked in the Arctic and lived for extended periods in Mexico and in
England. Until his retirement in 2004, he taught poetry at Bentley
College in Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in several anthologies
and in magazines such as The Literary Review, Partisan Review,
Boulevard, Revue Europe and Queen’s Quarterly as well as in the
following collections of his work:
Ellenbogen’s work has been supported by the Whiting Foundation, the Montalvo Foundation, the Karolyi Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Canadian Department of External Affairs, Gesellschaft fur Kanada Studien, the Canada Council, United States Information Service, and Canadian International Cultural Relations. He has read his poems on both sides of the Atlantic, was featured in a 1990 documentary, “George Ellenbogen: Canadian Poet in America,” and in a graduate dissertation,“Postmodernism and the Travel Motif in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich and George Ellenbogen” (Brigitta Wallenberg, University of Salzburg). He is also one of several poets featured in Jean Tobin’s Creativity and the Poetic Mind (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004).
- Winds of Unreason (1957)
- The Night Unstones (1971)
- Along the Road from Eden (1989)
- The Rhino Gate Poems (1995)
- Portes aux rhinos et autres poemes (1997)
- Winterfischer (2002)
- Morning Gothic (2007)
- Matin d’horreur (2008)
Ellenbogen’s work has been supported by the Whiting Foundation, the Montalvo Foundation, the Karolyi Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Canadian Department of External Affairs, Gesellschaft fur Kanada Studien, the Canada Council, United States Information Service, and Canadian International Cultural Relations. He has read his poems on both sides of the Atlantic, was featured in a 1990 documentary, “George Ellenbogen: Canadian Poet in America,” and in a graduate dissertation,“Postmodernism and the Travel Motif in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich and George Ellenbogen” (Brigitta Wallenberg, University of Salzburg). He is also one of several poets featured in Jean Tobin’s Creativity and the Poetic Mind (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004).