Thomas Bolt (born 1959 in Washington, D.C.) is an American fiction writer, poet, and artist.
Thomas Bolt | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Corcoran School of Art University of Virginia |
| Genre | Fiction and Poetry |
Life
editHe 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.
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).
His short stories and novel excerpts have appeared in BOMB, n+1, Epiphany, and in The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2018.
He has read from his work in New York (with n+1 at the Ace Hotel, 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),[1] and in Rome (at the Villa Aurelia). He lives in Toronto.
Awards
edit- O. Henry Prize Winner, 2018[2]
- Rome Prize for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters[3]
- Yale Younger Poets Prize
- The Peter I. B. Lavin Younger Poet Award of the American Academy of Poets [4]
- Ingram Merrill Fellowship
- 1997 Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts
Works
edit- Thomas Bolt, BOMB, Issue 45 Fall 1993[5]
- At the Motel of the Villa of the Mysteries, Literary Imagination 2005 7: 258-261[6]
- Thomas Bolt, Southwest Review Vol. 82, No. 4 1997[7]
- Thomas Bolt, Epiphany Issue 9, Spring-Summer 2011[8]
- Thomas Bolt, n+1 Issue 27, Winter 2017[9]
- Thomas Bolt, n+1 Issue 30, Winter 2018[10]
- Thomas Bolt, n+1 Issue 44, Winter 2023[11]
- Thomas Bolt, n+1 Online Only, September 1, 2017[12]
Books
edit- Out of the Woods. Yale University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-300-04469-0.
Thomas Bolt.
- Dark Ice, 1993–1997, a poem of 1,001 lines with notes and parodies of notes, was first published in BOMB in the fall of 1993. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/1993/10/01/dark-ice/ | https://tbolt.com/di2/di_tp.html
- Dark Ice on Zembla hypertext and ASCII version on NABOKV-L
Anthologies
edit- The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. Anchor Books. 2018. ISBN 9780525436584.
- 1971 Pontiac LeMans, The Paris Review, No. 109, Winter 1988[13]
- Sixty Years of American Poetry (Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1996).
- "A Cluster of Sunsets," in the Autumn 1997 issue of Southwest Review
- Two Poems, The Paris Review, No. 154, Spring 2000[14]
Collaborations
editInterviews
edit- James Merrill, Thomas Bolt, BOMB Magazine, Issue 36 Summer 1991
- NABOKV-L Interview with Thomas Bolt, author of DARK ICE, Donald Barton Johnson, NABOKV-L post 0002539, Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:44:20 -0800
- Donald Antrim, Thomas Bolt, BOMB Magazine, Issue 58 Winter 1997
- Brian Boyd, Thomas Bolt, BOMB Magazine, Issue 71 Spring 2000
Reviews
editPublishers Weekly:
Bolt handles his subject matter with admirable attention to detail and precision of language; he ranges easily from adjective-replete accounts to stark, minimalist statements[15]
References
edit- ^ "92d Street Y to Present Two Evenings of Poetry". The New York Times. 1990-02-24. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ^ "The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018". Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "Other SOF and AAR Publications". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
- ^ "Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award". Archived from the original on 2008-05-14. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- ^ "BOMB Magazine — Dark Ice by Thomas Bolt". bombsite.com. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
- ^ "Table of Contents — Spring 2005, 7 (2)". litimag.oxfordjournals.org. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
- ^ "Southwest Review — A Cluster of Sunsets by Thomas Bolt". Southwest Review. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
- ^ "Epiphany — Curtain of Frost by Thomas Bolt". Epiphany. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "n+1 — Inversion of Marcia by Thomas Bolt". nplusonemag.com. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "n+1 — Estación Origen MADRID by Thomas Bolt". nplusonemag.com. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "n+1 — Area of Isolation by Thomas Bolt". nplusonemag.com. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "n+1 — Insurance by Thomas Bolt". nplusonemag.com. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "The Paris Review - Winter 1988". Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
- ^ "The Paris Review - Spring 2000". Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ "Welcome | Yale University Press". yalepress.yale.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-23.