Bruce Beasley, PhD
He/him, Professor Emeritus
About
Dr. Bruce Beasley taught for WWU's English Department from 1992-2023.
Dr. Bruce Beasley was a professor of English at Western Washington University and is the author of nine collections of poems, including most recently ALL SOUL PARTS RETURNED and THEOPHOBIA, both from BOA Editions, and PRAYERSHREDS from Orison Books. His work appears in KENYON REVIEW, GETTYSBURG REVIEW, POETRY, NEW ENGLAND REVIEW, and other journals. As a professor, Dr. Beasley taught poetry, poetics, poetry and dreams, slam and spoken word, scriptural literature, and the literatures of monstrosity, and was the 2013 recipient of the Western's Peter J. Elich Excellence in Teaching Award.