from Therapon III

Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-seven books, including Invention of the Wilderness (Louisiana State University Press, 2023), Therapon (with Dan Beachy-Quick; Tupelo Press, 2023), Vault (Ashland Poetry Press, 2023), and Lunette (Green Linden Press, 2024). His honors include the Juniper Prize, Richard Snyder Award, Test Site Poetry Award, New Criterion Poetry Award, Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Crab Orchard Book Prize, Elixir Press Poetry Award, two Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry awards, fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Commission on the Arts, and seven appearances in The Best American Poetry. (updated 10/2025)

Dan Beachy-Quick is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection Arrows (Tupelo Press, 2020) and a translation of Ancient Greek lyric poetry, Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions, 2020). His other poetry collections include gentlessness (Tupelo, 2015); North True South Bright (2003); Spell (2004); Mulberry (2006), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for poetry; This Nest, Swift Passerine (2009); and Circle’s Apprentice (2011). He is also the author of A Whaler’s Dictionary (2008), a collection of linked essays responding to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. His work has been supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar. (updated 4/2022)