George Wallace (MPH, MFA) is a NYC based poet and spoken word artist with 42 chapbooks, five albums of spoken word poetry streamed worldwide, and an active schedule of appearances in NYC and worldwide, including an appearance in 2023 at the St Augustine Poetry Festival and recent or scheduled appearances at the Medellin Poetry Festival, National Beat Poetry Festival, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, Turrialba Poetry Festival, Boao Poetry Festival, Silk Road International Poetry Festival, Piacenza Biennale, Human Underground, Athens. In France he has previously performed at Shakespeare and Company, and participated in a Camille Claudel workshop at the Avignon Theater Festival. As writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, he is creator of POETS BUILDING BRIDGES, now in its third season, triangulating groups of poets from different regions of the world.