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About the Author
Thomas Bolt was born in 1959 in Washington, D.C., where he attended
public and private schools. He was a pre-college scholarship student at
the Corcoran School of Art and received a B.A. in English (cum laude)
and Art from the University of Virginia. His paintings have been shown
in group exhibitions in New York. Land (1982), a hand-printed book of
his poems and etchings, is in the rare book collections of the Library
of Congress and the University of Virginia.
Yale University Press published his first book of poems, Out of the
Woods, in 1989. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, BOMB, and
Southwest Review (where his long poem, Wedgwood, won an award for the
best poem the quarterly published in 1994).
Thomas Bolt's awards and fellowships include the Rome Prize for
Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Yale Younger
Poets Prize, The Peter I. B. Lavin Younger Poet Award of the American
Academy of Poets, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, and a 1997 Artist's
Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Bolt's poems are included in the anthologies Sixty Years of American
Poetry (Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1996) and the Yale Younger Poets
Anthology (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998).
He has read from his work in New York (at Mad Alex Presents, the Limbo
Reading Series, the Poetry Society of America, the Alliance Stage Poets'
Reading Series, and the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y), and in
Rome (at the Villa Aurelia). He lives in New York city. |
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