Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-seven books including, most recently, Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (U of MI, 2015), For the Lost Cathedral (LSU, 2015), The Other Sky (Etruscan, 2015), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, U of Tampa, 2016), Gold Bee (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award, Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), Sacrum (Four Way Books, 2017), Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (E. Phillabaum Award, LSU), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Book Prize, Elixir Press, 2018), Frankenstein’s Children (Lost Horse Press, 2018), Dear Reader (Parlor Press,2018), Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019), Words Written Against the Walls of the City (LSU, 2019), Scar (Etruscan Press, 2020), and The Calling (Parlor Press, 2020). His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including seven editions of Best American Poetry. Four books are forthcoming including Behemoth (winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize, Criterion Books) and Patmos (winner of the Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts Press). Other prizes include the Allen Tate Award,the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Award, two TIL Best Book of Poetry Prizes, the Meringoff Prize, the Colladay Award, the Richard Peterson Prize, the Meridian Editors Award in Poetry, the Knightville Poetry Award, the River Styx International Poetry Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts. Presently he is Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.