“Doctor Ricardo J. Bogaert-Álvarez is a Dominican-American chemical engineer and poet. he obtained his B.S. at the PCUMM in Santiago and then obtained his chemical engineering masters and PhD at the University of Delaware. He has lived in the United States since 1981 and resides in Denver with his beloved wife Laura. He has published poems in the “El Sol” newspaper, “The New Press,” the Horizons” anthology and the “American Institute of Chemical Engineers” supplement among other publications. He has published four poetry books: 1) “The Mask Behind My Face” (which is available in Amazon Kindle), 2) “The Dance of the Phoenix,” 3) “The Samurai Poet” and 4) “Romance and Haiku Elixir.” In the latter three books, each poem is in Spanish and English.”
