George Wallace is author of 40 chapbooks of poetry in the US, UK, India, Albania, and Greece, beginning in 1988 and continuing for over a quarter of a century, and has seen over 1000 individual poems published in leading journals worldwide.
His many awards and honors include:
Writer in Residence, Walt Whitman Birthplace 2011-Present; Lifetime Beat Laureate, First Poet Laureate, Suffolk County LI NY 2003-05; National Beat Poetry Foundation ’21; Poet of the year, Boao International Poetry Festival China ’22;
Corona d’oro, Korca Literary Festival Albania, ’19; Orpheus Prize. Orpheus Festival, Bulgaria ’18; Alexander the Great Gold Medal, UNESCO-Salamis, Greece, ’18; Centro Studii Archivio d’Occidente Award, Trento, Italy ’18; Naim Frasheri Prize and Festival Laureate. Ditet e Naimit Festival,Tetova North Macedonia, ’17;
Blue Light Book Award ’17; Poetry Kit Best Book Award, ’04; CW Post Poetry Prize ’99.
1990s: EARLY LONG ISLAND
The Milking Jug (Cross-Cultural Communications, ’89)
Tales of a Yuppie Dropout (Writers Ink Press, ’92)
Butterflies and other Tattoos (GinMill Productions ’92)
Poems of Augie Prime (Writers Ink Press, ’99)
Sesquicentennial Suite (Birnham Wood Graphics ’00)
2000-05: EUROPE
Tie Back The Roses (Explicitly Graphic UK ’86)
Swimming Through Water / Nuotando Attraverso L’Aqua (La Finestra Editrice Italy, ’03)
Burn My Heart In Wet Sand (Troubadour UK, ’04)
50 Love Poems / 50 Poesie D’Amore (La Finestra Editrice UK, ’04)
When I Was Dead (Flarestack UK, ’06)
2004-2012: NEW YORK CITY
Without Benefit Of Men (Chlenskiy Publishing, ’04)Summer Of
Love, Summer Of Love (Shivastan Press, 2008)
Poppin Johnny (Three Rooms Press, 2009)
EOS: Abductor of Men (Three Rooms Press, 2012)
2008-09 CLEVELAND: Green Panda Press
Who’s Handling Your Aubergines (Green Panda Press, 2008)
Wrestling Godzilla (Green Panda Press, 2008)
Stringing Lights (Green Panda Press 2008)
2005-11: NEW YORK CITY
Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press ’03)
After The Fall (Butcher Shop Press, ’05)
Sunny Side Up The Dream Cloud Egg (Good Japan Press, ’08)
Jumping Over The Moon (Boone’s Dock Press, ’11)
Incident on the Orient Express (Nirala Publications India, ’12)
2012-16 CLEVELAND: Night Ballet Press
Sleeping Beauty’s Revenge (NightBallet Press, 2012)
The Hard Stuff (NightBallet Press, 2012)
Belt Buckles and Bibles (NightBallet Press, 2013)
Riding With Boom Boom (NightBallet Press, 2013)
Drugged By Hollywood (NightBallet Press, 2016)
2014-19 MIDWEST: Spartan Press, Foothills Press
Beauty Parlors Trainyards and Everything In Between (Spartan Press 18)
One Hundred Years Among The Daisies (Spartan Press 2019)
A Simple Blues With A Few Intangibles (Foothills Press 2016)
2017-21 CALIFORNIA: Blue Light Press, Amethyst & Emerald Press
Smashing Rock And Straight As Razors (Blue Light Press 2017)
Resistance is a Blue Spanish guitar (Blue Light Press 2021)
Outside Paso Robles (Amethyst & Emerald Publishing 2019)
2022-23 MIDWEST: Guttersnob Press, /Roadside Press
Blowing Thru Secaucus (Guttersnob Press 2022)
Resurrection Song (Roadside Press 2023)
George Wallace Spoken Word Music 