Bob Hicok
Encyclopedia
Life
Hicok is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from MichiganMichigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business. He formerly taught at Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University is a public university located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1903 by Dwight B. Waldo, and as of the Fall 2010 semester, its enrollment is 25,045....
.
His first book, The Legend of Light, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press
University of Wisconsin Press
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and chosen as an American Library Association
American Library Association
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Booklist
Booklist
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Notable Book of the Year. Plus Shipping followed in 1998. His 2001 Animal Soul was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
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. He has since published two more books, Insomnia Diary (2004) and This Clumsy Living (2007), both with the University of Pittsburgh Press. His newest book, Words for Empty and Words for Full, will be published in 2010 by University of Pittsburgh Press.
His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and The American Poetry Review
The American Poetry Review
The American Poetry Review is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint.Founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg, APR has always been published from editorial offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Berg is one of three editors, along with David Bonanno and Elizabeth...
, as well as in four volumes of The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year...
and three times in the Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
anthology.
Awards
- 1995 Felix Pollak Prize for The Legend of Light chosen by Carolyn KizerCarolyn KizerCarolyn Ashley Kizer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism.-Life and work:...
- 2008 Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
- two NEANational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Fellowships - 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for PoetryBobbitt National Prize for PoetryThe Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is awarded biennially by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation in recognition for the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years....
from the Library of Congress for "This Clumsy Living".
Works
- Go Greyhound A poem by Bob Hicok
- Words For Empty And Words For Full, 2010 University of Pittsburgh Press;
- This Clumsy Living, 2007, the University of Pittsburgh Press;
- Insomnia Diary, 2004, the University of Pittsburgh Press;
- Animal Soul, 2003, Invisible Cities Press;
- Spam Leaves an Aftertaste,2002, A poem by Bob Hicok
- Plus Shipping, 1998, BOA Editions, Ltd.; and
- The Legend of Light, 1995 University of Wisconsin Press.
- Bearing Witness, 1991 Ridgeway Press