On November 8, 2007, Jerry Bradley read his poetry at Arkansas Tech University. A Professor of English at Lamar University, Bradley has authored four books including The Movement: British Poets of the 1950s (criticism) and Simple Versions of Disaster (poetry).

Professor Bradley is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and a three-time Pushcart nominee. Bradley was the 1996 winner of the Boswell Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared in many literary magazines including New England Review, American Literary Review, Modern Poetry Studies, Poetry Magazine, and Southern Humanities Review. Bradley is the poetry editor of Concho River Review. He founded the New Mexico Humanities Review and edited it for for sixteen years. He has published more than one hundred fifty stories and poems, more than thirty critical aarticles, and more than eighty reviews.