Thomas Bolt
Thomas Bolt was an American fiction writer, poet, and artist.
Life
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 and Art from the University of Virginia.His paintings have been shown in group exhibitions in New York. Land, 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.
His short stories and novel excerpts have appeared in BOMB, n+1, Epiphany, and in The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2018.
He read from his work in New York, and in Rome. He lived in Toronto.
Awards
- O. Henry Prize Winner, 2018
- Rome Prize for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Yale Younger Poets Prize
- The Peter I. B. Lavin Younger Poet Award of the American Academy of Poets
- Ingram Merrill Fellowship
- 1997 Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts
Works
- Thomas Bolt, BOMB, Issue 45 Fall 1993At the Motel of the Villa of the Mysteries, Literary Imagination 2005 7: 258-261
- Thomas Bolt, Southwest Review Vol. 82, No. 4 1997
- Thomas Bolt, Epiphany Issue 9, Spring-Summer 2011
- Thomas Bolt, n+1 Issue 27, Winter 2017
- Thomas Bolt, n+1 Issue 30, Winter 2018
- Thomas Bolt, n+1 Issue 44, Winter 2023
- Thomas Bolt, n+1 Online Only, September 1, 2017
Books
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.htmlDark Ice on Zembla hypertext and ASCII version on NABOKV-LAnthologies
1971 Pontiac LeMans, The Paris Review, No. 109, Winter 1988Sixty Years of American Poetry.- "A Cluster of Sunsets," in the Autumn 1997 issue of Southwest ReviewTwo Poems, The Paris Review, No. 154, Spring 2000
Interviews
Reviews
Publishers 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