Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-seven books including, most recently, Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (L.E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2017), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Book Prize, Elixir Press, 2018), Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018), Frankenstein’s Children (Lost Horse, 2018), Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019), Words Written Against the Walls of the City (LSU, 2019), and The Calling (Parlor, 2020).  Five books are forthcoming including Behemoth (winner of New Criterion Poetry Prize, Criterion Books) and Patmos (winner of the Juniper Prize, U of MA Press).  Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas. 

Employment

• Regents Professor at University of North Texas

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from Pomona College (June 1976)
• Master of Arts in English from Claremont Graduate School (June 1977)
• Master of Arts in Music-Performance from Lamont School of Music (June 1983)
• Doctoral Degree in English-Creative Writing-20th Century Poetry from University of Denver (August 1987)

Genres of Interest

Poetry