Bruce Bond (born June 25, 1954) is an American poet and creative writing educator at the University of North Texas.Contemporary Authors, A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields, Volume 190, Detroit: Gale Group (2001)
Formal education and academic career Bond earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Pomona College, a Master of Arts degree in English from Claremont Graduate School, and a Masters in Music Performance degree from the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver. Bond spends his free time performing jazz and classical guitar in Texas. In 1987, he earned a PhD in English from the University of Denver. Since then, he has taught at the University of Kansas, Wichita State University, Wilfrid Laurier University (in Canada), and the University of North Texas, where he currently is a Regents Professor of English and Poetry Editor, with Corey Marks, of American Literary Review.Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines, New York: H.W. Wilson Co. Volume 17: September 1990 — August 1992 (1992)Volume 23: September 1997 — August 1998 (1998)A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, 2001–2002 edition, New York: Poets & Writers (2001)
Works Poetry
Criticism
Plurality and the Poetics of Self, Palgrave (2019). Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand, University of Michigan Press (2015).
Bond's poetry has been published by The Best American Poetry, The Yale Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Georgia Review, Raritan, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and other journals and anthologies.
Honors Bond has received numerous honors, including the 2009 Kesterson Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, University of North Texas. He is a past fellow of the NEA (2001–2002), the Texas Commission on the Arts (1998), the UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts (2010), Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (1993; assisted Donald Justice), Wesleyan Writers' Conference, Wesleyan University (1996; assisted Henry Taylor), Sewanee Writers' Conference (1994; assisted Anthony Hecht), the MacDowell Foundation (1993), the Yaddo Corporation (1992), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (1989), and other organizations.
Richard Snyder Prize (2022) Vault https://www.ashlandpoetrypress.com/blog/2022/09/06/2022-richard-snyder-memorial-publication-prize-winner-is-bruce-bond Juniper Prize (2022) Patmos https://www.umasspress.com/9781625345615/patmos/ New Criterion Prize (2021) Behemoth https://www.amazon.com/Behemoth-Bruce-Bond/dp/1641771445 Schaffner Award for Literature in Music (2022) Liberation of Dissonance https://schaffnerpress.com/books/liberation-of-dissonance/ Meridian Editors Award in Poetry (from Meridian, 2020) Meringoff Prize (from Association of Literary Scholars, Critic, and Writers) (2019) https://alscw.org/news/winners-2018-alscw-meringoff-writing-awards/ Lawrence Goldstein Award (2018) Michigan Quarterly https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2018/04/mqr-announces-2017-literary-prizes/ Helen C. Smith Award (from Texas Institute of Letters) (2017) Gold Bee https://www.texasinstituteofletters.org/archives/TIL-awards-complete-history.pdf L.E. Philabaum Award Blackout Starlight https://lsupress.org/books/detail/blackout-starlight/ River Styx International Poetry Award (2017) http://www.riverstyx.org/submit/poetry-contest/ Elixir Press Poetry Award (2017) Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods http://elixirpress.com/rise-and-fall-of-the-lesser-sun-gods Tampa Review Prize for Poetry (2017) Black Anthem https://www.amazon.com/Black-Anthem-Bruce-Bond/dp/1597321346 Lynda Hull Memorial Award (2017) Crazyhorse https://swamp-pink.cofc.edu/prizes/2017-crazyhorse-prize-winners-finalists/ Crab Orchard Open Competition Book Prize (2016) Gold Bee http://siupress.com/series/crab-orchard-series-poetry?page=2 http://siupress.com/books/978-0-8093-3532-9 Knightville Poetry Award (from The New Guard, 2012)
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Selections from For the Lost Cathedral on Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts NEA feature: Thelonious Sphere Monk An Essay on "Homage to Paul Cézanne" Interview and the poem Wake Interview with Poetry Santa Cruz The poem, Audubon, on Poetry Daily