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]
Joe Bolton (1960-1990) is the author of Days of Summer Gone (Galileo Press). His Collected Poems, edited by Donald Justice"
Joe Bolton, poet, suicide at twenty-eight. I thought of him as a latter-day Weldon Kees, in love with death, the voice ...
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 ...