# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Bruce Bond Poetry Reading
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Bruce Bond is the author of 37 books including, most recently, Patmos (UMass, 2021), Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner, 2022), Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2023), Therapon (with Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo, 2023), Vault (Ashland, 2023), Lunette (Green Linden, 2024), The Dove of the Morning News (U of NV, 2024), and The Silent Conversation (Vern Rutsala Editor’s Selection, Cloudbank Books), plus two books of criticism Immanent Distance (UMI, 2015) and Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019).

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, Wishing Jewel Editor’s Award, Elixir Press Poetry Award, Tampa Review Book Prize, Lynda Hull Award,  James Dickey Prize, Laurence Lieberman Prize, Verse Daily Book Prize, two TIL Best Book of Poetry awards, fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts, and seven appearances in Best American Poetry. 

Presently he teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas and performs jazz and classical guitar in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. 

A Sample Poem from Bruce Bond's Latest Collection, The Silent Conversation:

Auden

I know there is no author, and then, there is
everywhere this veil of dust and nomenclature
unknowingly inhaled.  The words of the dead 
lie down in the public park to give the snows 
a place to fall.  What is an elegy if not carved
into a field made legible, so long as it is cold. 

In a killing season, grieve so much, and then 
make room.  A little heart in the form of stillness.
The names of millions walk into a bridge on fire.
Into silence and then a deeper, greener silence.  
The books of the dead fold our palms at the end
of time where the beloved die so many times, 

you would think they would be better at it, less
restless, more content.  Poetry makes nothing 
happen.  Faceless statues in the snow bear witness.
So easy to feel alone with the century in a poem,
to watch the indifferent shoreline industries 
trickle smoke into a sky.  To feel a little pointless

above the river, a cautionary tale no one reads.  
Memorial symphonies fire cannons in the fog, 
and I love the bluster.  I trust the grief.  I love 
the chalk that strikes a blow across the black of day.
My city, although I did not call it mine, not until 
I heard a radio counting casualties from the Rhine.

Prague in the amber of a silent movie wants badly 
to be held, dubbed in whatever confusion gleaned 
from the gestures of lips.  The flicker of the spool’s 
feed gives way to the no less mournful soundscape
that moves the armored car or skull or stretcher 
across the steel and human wreckage of the square.

All things more infected with experience 
the deeper we go: where knowledge ends, love begins.  
I read that, but when I looked again, I walked
into the thirteenth century, and the library rose
into a steeple of fire, and a man ran in to gather 
what was legible among the scrolls and embers.

I feel for you, says a husband who was not born 
a Jew and will not die one, although he places 
a stone against the larger burden with the others
of her family.  Is it true, the conscious life, 
laid in the cradle of song, makes more personal 
that loss, more fierce the lion of books on fire.  

I too am frightened. It helps to know.  I want 
to find a book worth burning and therefore reading.  
We will remember, says the door to a museum, 
the air a grave of anthems, dust from the artifacts, 
a seraphim of pins to hold a jacket on exhibit.  
In the corner a movie plays to a row of chairs.

In a soundtrack scored for strings and six million 
reasons to sit down, I love the great emptiness
the contralto enters with the caution of a candle.  
A circle of light.  Even as we leave and the mound 
of spectacles turns to cinders, the music is not over. 

We drive. We listen. We plow the dark like snow.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/denton/bruce-bond-poetry-reading/200029227947532
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment, music
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 3

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Denton
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 221 W Hickory St, Denton, TX, United States, Texas 76201
- **lat**: 33.2144
- **long**: -97.1347
- **full address**: 221 W Hickory St, Denton, TX, United States, Texas 76201

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Bruce Bond Poetry Reading being held?
  - **A:** Bruce Bond Poetry Reading takes place on Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm at 221 W Hickory St, Denton, TX, United States, Texas 76201.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Bruce Bond Poetry Reading?
  - **A:** Bruce Bond Poetry Reading is organized by Patchouli Joe's Books & Indulgences.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Bruce Bond Poetry Reading is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Denton, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Bruce Bond Poetry Reading sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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