Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-nine 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 (L.E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2015), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Book Prize, Elixir, 2018), Frankenstein's Children (Lost Horse, 2018), Dear Reader (Parlor, 2018), Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019), Words Written Against the Walls of the City (LSU, 2019), Scar (Etruscan, 2020), The Calling (Parlor, 2021), Behemoth (New Criterion Poetry Prize, Criterion Books, 2021), Patmos (Juniper Prize, U of MA), Choreomania (Madhat, 2022), Liberation of Dissonance (Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Schaffner Press, 2022), Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2022), and Therapon (co-authored with Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo Press, forthcoming). His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including seven editions of Best American Poetry. 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 Laurence Goldstein Award, the River Styx International Poetry Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts. At the University of North Texas, he won the Eminent Professor Award, the Toulouse Scholar Award, the Creative Impact Award, and the David Kesterson Award for Graduate Teaching. Presently at the university, he is a Regents Emeritus Professor of English.