Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet.[1]
Life
Hicok is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech and an associate professor of English at Purdue University. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business.[2] He formerly taught at Western Michigan University.[3]
His first book, The Legend of Light, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press and chosen as an American Library Association Booklist Notable Book of the Year. Plus Shipping followed in 1998. His 2001 Animal Soul was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.[4] He has since published four more books, Insomnia Diary (2004) This Clumsy Living (2007) and Words for Empty and Words for Full (2010) with University of Pittsburgh Press. His latest work, Elegy Owed (2013)[5] was published by Copper Canyon Press.
His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and The American Poetry Review, as well as in eight volumes of The Best American Poetry and six times in the Pushcart Prize anthology.
Awards
- 1995 Felix Pollak Prize for The Legend of Light chosen by Carolyn Kizer
- 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship [6]
- two NEA Fellowships
- 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress for "This Clumsy Living".[7]
- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) shortlist for Elegy Owed[8][9]
Bibliography
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Collections
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- The Legend of Light, 1995, University of Wisconsin Press
- Plus Shipping, 1998, BOA Editions, Ltd.
- Animal Soul, 2003, Invisible Cities Press
- Insomnia Diary, 2004, University of Pittsburgh Press
- This Clumsy Living, 2007, University of Pittsburgh Press
- Words for Empty and Words for Full, 2010, University of Pittsburgh Press
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Anthologies
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Notes
- ↑ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june09/bobhicok_04-30.html
- ↑ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1126
- ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3137
- ↑ http://www.pw.org/mag/is_criticscircle.htm Poets and Writers Inc., Feb. 01, 2001
- ↑ https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={D664C527-E285-460D-9EBD-D60B3D9F1CA9}
- ↑ Guggenheim Foundation 2008 Fellows
- ↑ Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry - Poetry (Library of Congress)
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External links
- "Bob Hicok", Caffeine Destiny
- Is a Pepper Steak a Steak Made of Pepper? An interview with Bob Hicok
- "Poet Hicok Reflects on Economic Hardships in Mich.", April 30, 2009, Newshour, PBS
- "Poets Q & A with Bob Hicok", August 2005, smartish pace
- Poem: The Smiths, as I understand them
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