Bogin, George

George Bogin, a poet and translator, was born on April 28, 1920 in New York City. A lifelong New Yorker; he was raised in Queens and graduated from Columbia College in 1939. He served in World War II, and ultimately settled in Great Neck on Long Island, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was a passionate supporter of human rights and civil liberties, and was a founder of the Great Neck Peace Forum in the early 1950s. He married Ruth Fleischer (1920-1999), with whom he had two daughters, Nina and Madga Bogin.

He was widely published in literary magazines and anthologies, including "The Paris Review", "The American Poetry Review", "The Nation", "Chicago Review", "Columbia Forum", "New Letters", "Massachusetts Review", "Kansas Quarterly", and "Ploughshares". He also held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annaghmekerrig, Ireland. One of Bogin's poems , "Pitchipoi," was set to music for orchestra and soloists by Lloyd Ultan in Pitchipoi, "The Children of Drancy" (1983). His translation work was primarily from the French, and included Bosquet and Supervielle. He published two books, a translation of Jules Supervielle's works, "Selected Poems and Reflections on the Art of Poetry" (1985), and his own book of poetry, "In a Surf of Strangers" (1981).

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