Discipline: Literature – poetry

Bruce Bond

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Denton, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993
Bruce Bond is a poet, classical and jazz guitarist, and professor of English. He earned a B.A. from Pomona College, an M.A. in English from Claremont Graduate School, an M.A. in music performance from the Lamont School of Music (University of Denver), and a PhD in English from the University of Denver. He is the author of many collections of poetry, including The Anteroom of Paradise (1991); Radiography (1997), winner of the Natalie Ornish Best Book of Poetry Award; The Throats of Narcissus (2001); Blind Rain (2008); The Visible (2012); Sacrum (2017); Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (2017); Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Press, 2018); and Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018). His poetry combines personal lyric and metaphysical inquiry as well as the influences of music and jazz musicians. Bond has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts. He is a professor of English at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, and a poetry editor of the American Literary Review.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Bruce Bond worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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