Bruce Bond's most recent books include Cinder, The Throats of Narcissus, Radiography, The Anteroom of Paradise, Independence Days, and Blind Rain. He is a professor at University of North Texas and poetry editor for American Literary Review.

All the poems by Bruce Bond that have appeared on Verse Daily:
June 26, 2008:   "Scar" "What is it you forget in your vigil..."
May 8, 2008:   "Will" "To the locusts that blur the lyres of their shells..."
April 16, 2008:   "Elegy for Tim Buckley" "Scat singing for the sleep deprived..."
July 8, 2007:   "Confessions of a Music Box" " No larger than a bird coffin..."
August 25, 2006:   "Black Iris" " Dear guitar, my Cyclops, my raft..."
August 14, 2006:   "Planetarium" " As the mobile of planets wheeled over my crib..."
April 18, 2004:  "The Ghost of Weather" "My father takes smaller steps..."
March 30, 2004:  "Rehearsals for the New Order" "The courthouse is empty now ablaze..."
October 12, 2002:  "The Chimneys" "After the fire the monoliths of brick..."
July 23, 2002:  "Mercy" "Dear happiness, forgive me..."

Books by Bruce Bond: Blind Rain, The Anteroom of Paradise, Cinder, The Throats of Narcissus, Independence Days, The possible, Radiography,

Other poems on the web by Bruce Bond:
"Thelonious Sphere Monk"
"Cruor Dei"
"The Invention of Song"

About Subtropics:
Poets in this issue: Averill Curdy, Silvio D’Arzo, Douglas Basford, Eric Van Cleve, G. C. Waldrep, A. E. Stallings, Ben Debus, Bruce Bond, Jeffrey Kahrs, Hai Zi, John Kinsella, Anne Marie Rooney, Reginald Shepherd, Peter Cooley, Mark McBride, Dan Pinkerton, Peggy Smith Duke, Barry Benson, Richard Kenney, Cody Walker, Mark Terrill, Mark McKain, Megan Savage, Tomaš Šalamun, Brian Henry, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Joseph Campana, John Poch, Corey Marks, Katherine Bode-Lang, Terese Svoboda, Joanne Childers, David Chandler, Barry Spacks, Glenn Shaheen, Kathleen Rooney, Lisa Bower, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Ryan Flaherty, Arthur McMaster, Brenda Sieczkowski, Christine Poreba, Bruce McRae, Bruce Bond, Catherine Wing,