Christopher Bogart is a retired educator and a working poet and writer with BS in Liberal Arts from St. Peter’s College/University, an MA and an MFA in Creative Writing from Monmouth University.
He is the founder and member of Jersey Shore Poets, and organizes an annual public poetry reading for National Poetry Month, “Poets Live!” which has been presented for fourteen years at The Eatontown Library, Monmouth County Library/Eastern Branch and Holmdel Branch as well as online.
His poetry has been published in Voices Rising from the Grove, Spindrift, WestWard Quarterly, Saggio Poetry Journal, The Monmouth Review (2013 and 2014, 2020, 2022), Mind Murals (2013), Whirlwind Review (Fall 2014), The Howl of Sorrow, A Collection of Poetry Inspired by Hurricane Sandy, This Broken Shore (Summer 2015. 2018, 2023), Jersey Shore Poets/First Edition, The Poeming Pidgeon 2022, Poetry for Ukraine 2022, The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow 15, New Jersey Bards Poetry Review 2023, Rhyme and PUNishment, 2024 as well as various online sites.
He also writes short stories, translating the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, Arthur Rimbaud and Sergei Esenin into English, is working on a personal memoir titled You Must Be Somebody, as well as working on his first novel, tentatively titled The Beast, about the plight of two Central American teenage migrants who flee poverty and crime in search of a better life in America.
In September of 2024, he organized a two week virtual reading of poets from Ukraine, Poland and Bulgaria about the war in Ukraine (https://www.youtube.com/@ChristopherBoga... @ChristopherBogart-y1h) and is working on a joint venture with Ukrainian and American poets about the war in Ukraine. He is presently working on putting together a filmed reading of his book, This Conversation with 10 fellow poets spanning two continents for use in readings and in classroom settings, and co-authoring an epistolary book of poetry with poet, James C. Ellerbe, about race in America, tentatively titled The Next Conversation.
