Bruce Bond (’97): Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-three books including, most recently, Patmos (Juniper Prize, UMass, 2021), Behemoth (New Criterion Prize, 2021), Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Schaffner, 2022), and Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2023), plus two books of criticism, Immanent Distance (U. of Michigan, 2015) and Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019). Other honors include the Crab Orchard Open Competition Book Prize, the Elixir Press Poetry Award, the L. E. Phillabaum Award, Tampa Review Book Prize, Richard Snyder Book Prize, the Allen Tate Award, the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Award, two Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry Prizes, the Meringoff Prize, the Richard Peterson Prize, the Meridian Editors’ Award in Poetry, the New South Poetry Award, the Knightville Poetry Award, the Laurence Goldstein Award, the River Styx International Poetry Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts.