Charlie Bondhus

Charlie Bondhus’s second poetry book, All the Heat We Could Carry, won the 2013 Main Street Rag Award and the Publishing Triangle’s 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work appears or is set to appear in numerous journals. He is the Poetry Editor at The Good Men Project (goodmenproject.com).

I went down into the bone colored drifts, seeking something other than purity, brutality, cold, peace, all […]

White Descent by Charlie Bondhus

July 14, 2014 in Poetry / Visual Art tagged Charlie Bondhus / Kevin Hinkle by Ryan Gunn

…your dreams at night will be as strange as the jars of octopus you saw once in […]

The Octopus Jar by Charlie Bondhus

July 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Charlie Bondhus by Ryan Gunn

Charlie Bondhus’ poetry ranges freely through formalist, persona, image-strong free verse, and old school narrative. His […]

Charlie Bondhus: A Poet in Conversation(s) With Art by Jessamyn ...

July 14, 2014 in Editor's Feature / Poetry / Visual Art tagged Charlie Bondhus / Jessamyn Smyth / Kevin Hinkle by Ryan Gunn

Tonight there are thirty-two stars set in the night’s blue-black mouth, each dropping a syllable through the […]

Language Lessons by Charlie Bondhus

July 14, 2014 in Poetry / Visual Art tagged Charlie Bondhus / Kevin Hinkle by Ryan Gunn

Wild birds fly into a man’s home; the resident will soon depart. […]

Bird by Charlie Bondhus

July 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Charlie Bondhus by Ryan Gunn