Bruce Bond Poetry
About Bruce Bond
Bruce Bond is the author of 37 books including, most recently, Patmos (Juniper Prize, UMass, 2021), Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Schaffner, 2022), Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2023), Therapon (with Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo, 2023), Vault (Richard Snyder Award, Ashland, 2023), Lunette (Wishing Jewel Prize Editor’s Selection, Green Linden, 2024), and The Dove of the Morning News (Test Site Poetry Award, U of NV, 2024), plus two books of criticism Immanent Distance (UMI, 2015) and Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019).
Other honors include the Crab Orchard Book Prize, the Elixir Press Poetry Award, the Tampa Review Book Prize, the Verse Daily Book Prize, the Lynda Hull Award, the James Dickey Prize, the New Criterion Award, the Meringoff Award, two TIL Best Book of Poetry awards, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts, and seven appearances in Best American Poetry.
Presently he teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas and performs jazz and classical guitar in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
Forthcoming Books
- The Silent Conversation (Vern Rutsala Prize, Editor’s Selection, Cloudbank Books).
- The Mirror, the Patch, the Telescope (Co-authored with David Keplinger, MadHat Press).
- The Plural of Water (LSU Press).
- Book of Dolls (Verse Daily Book Prize, Dog’s Heart Press).
