The Poet and the Poem 2018-19 Series

Featured Bob Hicok

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Bob Hicok's ninth collection, Hold, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in 2018. His seventh book, Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon, 2013), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This Clumsy Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), was awarded the 2008 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress and published in a German translation by Luxbooks in 2013. His other books are Sex & Love & (Copper Canyon, 2016), Words for Empty and Words for Full (Pitt, 2010), Insomnia Diary (Pitt, 2004), Animal Soul (Invisible Cities Press, 2001), also finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Plus Shipping (BOA, 1998), and The Legend of Light (University of Wisconsin, 1995), which received the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year. Recipient of eight Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim and two NEA Fellowships, his poetry has been selected for inclusion in nine volumes of Best American Poetry. He teaches at Virginia Tech.

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