The Magill Poetry Series
For over a quarter of a century, the Department of English has hosted the Magill Poetry Series, welcoming poets from all over the world.
We hold this annual poetry reading to honor the memory of Dr. Frank Magill and his extraordinary commitment to and passion for poetry. Jim Magill, Frank’s son, has continued his own dedication to this series and its recognition of the importance of poetry in the life of our culture.
Bruce Bond
Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-two books including, most recently, Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (U of MI, 2015), For the Lost Cathedral (LSU, 2015), The Other Sky (Etruscan, 2015), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, U of Tampa, 2016), Gold Bee (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award, Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), Sacrum (Four Way Books, 2017), Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (L.E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2015), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Book Prize, Elixir, 2018), Frankenstein’s Children (Lost Horse, 2018), Dear Reader (Parlor, 2018), Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019), Words Written Against the Walls of the City (LSU, 2019), Scar (Etruscan, 2020), The Calling (Parlor, 2021), Behemoth (New Criterion Poetry Prize, Criterion Books, 2021), Patmos (Juniper Prize, U of MA), Choreomania (Madhat, 2022), Liberation of Dissonance (Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Schaffner Press, 2022), Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2022), and Therapon (co-authored with Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo Press, forthcoming), The Mirror, the Patch, the Telescope (co-authored with David Keplinger, MadHat, forthcoming), and Vault (Richard Synder Memorial Prize, Ashland Poetry Press, forthcoming).
His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including seven editions of Best American Poetry. Other prizes include the Allen Tate Award, the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Award, two TIL Best Book of Poetry Prizes, the Meringoff Prize, the Colladay Award, the Richard Peterson Prize, the Meridian Editors Award in Poetry, 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. At the University of North Texas, he won the Eminent Professor Award, the Toulouse Scholar Award, the Creative Impact Award, and the David Kesterson Award for Graduate Teaching. Presently at the university, he is a Regents Emeritus Professor of English.
Past featured poets
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2022 – Tom Sleigh 2019 – Angie Estes 2018 – Arthur Sze 2017 – Forrest Gander 2016 – Linda Gregerson 2015 – Mary Ruefle 2014 – Yusef Komunyakaa 2013 – James Tate 2011 – Paul Muldoon 2010 – Carolyn Forché |
2009 – Robert Hass
2008 – Stanley Plumly 2007 – Jorie Graham 2006 – Philip Levine & W. S. Merwin 2005 – Rita Dove 2004 – Donald Revell 2003 – Donald Hall 2002 – Alan Shapiro 2001 – Thom Gunn 2000 – C. K. Williams 1999 – Charles Simic |
1998 – Marilyn Nelson
1997 – Philip Levine 1996 – Carolyn Kizer 1995 – Charles Wright 1994 – W. S. Merwin 1993 – Eavan Boland 1992 – Adrienne Rich 1991 – Mark Strand 1990 – Richard Wilbur 1989 – Louise Gluck 1988 – James Merrill 1987 – Czeslaw Milosz |
Contact Details
USC Department of English
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Taper Hall of Humanities 404
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354