Bruce Lader

Bruce Lader’s recent full-length book is Landscapes of Longing. His first full-length volume, Discovering Mortality, was a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell Award. He has also been a finalist for the 2008 Greensboro Award in Poetry and other contests. Bruce published a chapbook, Buoy on the Water, in 1979, and his poems have appeared in over 100 international journals and anthologies, including Poetry, the New York Quarterly, the Humanist, International Poetry Review, Harpur Palate, New Millennium Writings, Margie, Poet Lore, Asheville Poetry Review, and Against Agamemnon: War Poems. He is a former Writer-in-Residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Colony, and has received an honorarium from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. A New York City teacher for many years, he is the founding director of Bridges Tutoring, an organization based in Raleigh, North Carolina, educating multicultural students. www.brucelader.com