Dr. Bruce Bond

Dr. Bruce Bond, Regents Professor, received a BA from Pomona College, an MA in English from Claremont Graduate School, an MA in Music Performance from Lamont School of Music, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver.

He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wesleyan Writers' conference, The Swanee Writers' Conference, The Yaddo Corporation, and the
MacDowell Colony. Also he received the David Kesterson Award for Graduate Teaching.

His full-length collections of poetry include Independence Days (1990, winner of the R. Gross Award), The Anteroom of Paradise (1991, winner of the Colladay Award, QRL), Radiography (1997, BOA Editions, winner of the Natalie Ornish Award), The Throats of Narcissus (2001, University of Arkansas Press), Cinder (2003, Etruscan Press), Blind Rain (LSU Press, 2008), and his latest collection of poetry entitled Peal (Etruscan Press, 2009).

His poems and essays have recently appeared in The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Georgia Review, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, Threepenny Review, Poetry, and other journals.

He is Poetry Editor for The American Literary Review.

Read: "Cruor Dei" from The Throats of Narcissus.

Office: Auditorium Building, Room 213A
Phone: 940.565.4139
Email: bond@unt.edu