Michael McKeown Bondhus (born Charlie, 1981) is an American poet and author of four books. His second book, ''All the Heat We Could Carry'', was the winner of the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, the 2014

Thom Gunn Award The Thom Gunn Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of gay male poetry. First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of American poet Thom Gunn, the awa ...

for Gay Poetry, and a finalist for the

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Poetry Book Award.

Life

He grew up in

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and graduated from

Saint Anselm College Saint Anselm College is a private Benedictine liberal arts college in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Founded in 1889, it is the third-oldest Catholic college in New England. Named for Saint Anselm of Canterbury (Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to ...

. He received his MFA from

Goddard College Goddard College is a progressive education private liberal arts low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington. The college offers undergraduate and gra ...

and his Ph.D. from the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

. He served as poetry editor at ''The Good Men Project'' from 2013 to 2017, and currently teaches English and creative writing at

Raritan Valley Community College Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) is a public community college in North Branch, New Jersey. RVCC offers Associate degree programs leading to an Associate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Science (A.S.), Associate of Fine Art (A.F.A), or a ...

."Do ask, do tell: Poetry collection about U.S. soldier wins gay literary award"
''

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'', April 25, 2014. His work has appeared in ''Poetry'', ''The Missouri Review'', ''Hayden's Ferry Review'', ''The Baltimore Review'', ''Copper Nickel'', ''Bellevue Literary Review'', and ''Cold Mountain Review'', among others. He is openly

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...

Books

* * * * ''All the Heat We Could Carry''. Main Street Rag. 2013. . *

Awards

* 2007 Blue Light Press First Book Award Finalist for ''How the Boy Might See It'' * 2008/2009 Brickhouse Books Stonewall Competition Winner for ''What We Have Learned to Love'' * 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award * 2013 Gival Press Poetry Book Award—Finalist * 2014

for ''All the Heat We Could Carry'' * 2016 Brittingham/Pollak Award Finalist for ''Divining Bones'' * 2017 Tampa Review Prize Finalist for ''Divining Bones''

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