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 including a rundown of my historical and other interests.
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. He works as a medical editor in Washington, D.C.
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 co-editor, with Dan Cuddy, Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka, and Alan Reese, of the electronic and print literary magazine Loch Raven Review, http://www.lochravenreview.net/. Chris also has two personal blogs at http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/ and http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/blog.php?u=940, as well as 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).
As a historian, Chris is active in main two areas: the War of 1812 and the study of the Whitechapel murders of 1888.
He is an editor of Ripperologist magazine (http://www.ripperologist.biz). He has a blog on the Jack the Ripper case at http://blog.casebook.org/chrisgeorge/.
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 (Arcadia Publishers, 1998), Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay (White Mane Publishers, 2000), and Scots in Maryland & a History of the St. Andrew's Society of Baltimore, 1806-2006 (St. Andrew's Society of Baltimore, 2007).
In honor of the Bicentennial of the War of 1812, Chris has begun a new blog on the war at http://chrisgeorgewarof1812.blogspot.com/ where he will share news of upcoming events on the War of 1812 including speaking engagements in which he will be featured as well as his views on the conflict, one of the most significant events in the history of the United States but a war that has been woefully overlooked. Hopefully we can remedy that in the next three years.
Chris is now working with historian Dr. John McCavitt of Rostrevor, Northern Ireland, on a biography of Major General Robert Ross (1766-1814). Ross was the British commander who captured Washington, D.C., on August 24, 1814, and who was killed three weeks later during the attack on Baltimore. Through his detention of Upper Marlboro physician Dr. William Beanes, Ross was instrumental in bringing about the writing by Georgetown lawyer Francis Scott Key of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Visit the website, “The Man Who Captured Washington — General Robert Ross” at http://www.themanwhocapturedwashington.com.