Doctor Ricardo J. Bogaert-Álvarez is a Dominican-American chemical engineer and poet. He was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic and grew up in a hacienda. He obtained his B.S. at the Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Later, he obtained his chemical engineering masters and PhD at the University of Delaware. 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 is the vice president of the Columbine Poets, Inc, which is a poetry club at the state level in Colorado.