Ty BouldinTy Bouldin, a West Virginian by birth, majored in English at Concord College in Athens, WV between 1965 and 1969. In his senior year, he and a musician friend presented a reading of poems and songs under the stage name of "Cornpone and Carbuncle." Mot of the original material in this reading was contained in The Collected Poems of An Anonymous Young Poet. Following graduation, Ty continued writing in the interlinked narrative/lyric style of The Collected Poems, and he began developing the character of Artz Carbuncle as an artistic persona. After earning advanced degrees in English from Miami University of Ohio and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he taught English courses for 31 years at West Virginia State College and The University of Arizona in Tucson from which he retired in 2003. After retirement, he and his wife, Susan-a painter and photographer-returned to their rural home in West Virginia where they live on a wooded 25 acres with dogs, birds, flowering trees, and abundant wildlife. Read More Read Less