Joe Bolton (poet) explained

Joe Bolton
Birth Date:	December 3, 1961
Birth Place:	Cadiz, Kentucky
Death Date:	March, 1990 aged 28
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American

Joe Bolton (December 3, 1961 – March 1990) was an American poet.^[1]

He was born in Cadiz, Kentucky.^[2] He completed a master's degree at the University of Florida in 1988.^[3] In 1990, after completing his Master of Fine Arts, he died by suicide. He published three books of poetry.^{[4] [5]}

Bibliography

• Breckinridge County Suite (The Cummington Press, 1987).
• Days of Summer Gone (Galileo Press, 1990).
• The Last Nostalgia Poems, 1982–1990, edited by Donald Justice (University of Arkansas Press, 1999) .

External links

• The Poetry of Joe Bolton
• Remembering Joe Bolton by Tonya Parsons
• Oysterboy Review: Joe Bolton

Notes and References

1. News: September 1, 1998. Hell and back. New Criterion. Joe Bolton (1960-1990) is the author of Days of Summer Gone (Galileo Press). His Collected Poems, edited by Donald Justice".
2. News: Imperfect Villanelle . Joe Bolton, poet, suicide at twenty-eight. I thought of him as a latter-day Weldon Kees, in love with death, the voice ... . Rhetoric Review .
3. Web site: Some Alumni & Alumnae of MFA@FLA . University of Florida . 2008-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180430041511/http://www.english.ufl.edu/crw/publications.html . 2018-04-30 . dead .
4. News: The Last Nostalgia Poems . University of Arkansas Press .
5. News: No mercy . Joe Bolton killed himself in 1990 at the age of twenty-eight. The Last Nostalgia, his collected poems, comes with the particular taint and grace to which ... . New Criterion . December 1, 1991 .