Bob Hicok's most recent book, This Clumsy Living (Pitt, 2007), received the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He is a Guggenheim and NEA Fellow this year.

All the poems by Bob Hicok that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 4, 2009:   "Deeply Impersonal" "This is a good way to take life in. The eyes...."
May 25, 2009:   "Moving day" "When it's time, the hotels of Ardmore no longer interesting..."
February 16, 2009:   "Palsy" "Ignoring the obvious is most of manners...."
July 2, 2008:   "In a time of biblical references" "I've fallen behind. I have in fact..."
May 15, 2008:   "A wedding night" "A groom goes out with a pillow to where the sheep..."
December 20, 2007:   "A confluence of processes" "It was a kind of battery, the Earth..."
November 6, 2007:   "A celebration of lasting achievment" " The man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died...."
June 19, 2006:   "Love of Sport" " In the woods, place of tall and green, place of losing..."
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...."

Books by Bob Hicok:

Other poems on the web by Bob Hicok:
"Learning to Swim"
"a family matter"
Two poems
Five poems
"The map maker's faith"
"the dream"
"my life with a gardener"
"a nature film"
Nine poems
"Root root root for the home team"
"Slow going"
"Repast and future"
"My Career as a Director"
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
"Bedtime Story"
"Jornando del Muerto"
"Twins"
Eight poems
Eight poems
"Alzeimer's"
"The Quiet Americans"
"Only somewhat like a carousel"
"Ink"

Bob Hicok according to Wikipedia.

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