Bob Hicok's fifth collection of poems, This Clumsy Living, is forthcoming in 2007 from the University of Pittsburg Press.

Other poems by Bob Hicok in Verse Daily:
June 15, 2006:   "Fall" " Trees and the white room filling with the resistance..."
March 21, 2006:   "Weather Report" " Cats are new to me is why I call them..."
June 21, 2005:  "The Personal Touch" "I have fifteen cloud stamps, it says on the back..."
November 25, 2004:  "Founder's day" "I introduced John Adams to the Pacific..."
March 8, 2004:  "Building a painting a home" "If I built a barn I'd build it right into the sky..."
February 17, 2004:  "Truth About Love" "I apologize for not being Gandhi or Tom..."
February 16, 2004:  "Shopping at the ocean" "Trying to save the bug she killed the bug..."
December 24, 2002:  "By their works" "Who cleaned up the Last Supper?..."
August 29, 2002:  "Sorting the Entanglements" "In my will the basement goes to the spiders...."
July 14, 2002:  "Whither Thou Goest" "Fish can have mad cow disease and I have a problem / with that...."

About The Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: Seth Abramson, Dan Albergotti, Alison Baumann, Jack B. Bedell, Ron Block, Rick Bursky, Ron De Maris, William Greenway, Emily Grosholz, Bob Hicok, Mark Jarman, Richard Jones, Lance Larsen, Barbara Lau, Christopher Matthews, Susan Meyers, Jean Nordhaus, Wyatt Prunty, Christine Rhein, Thom Satterlee, R. T. Smith, W. D. Snodgrass, Jane Springer, Melissa Stein, Keith Taylor, William Wenthe