Bob Hicok is one of the most active poets writing today, and his poems have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker and Poetry. His honors include the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress and a "Notable Book of the Year" from Booklist. Hicok has worked as an automotive die designer and a computer system administrator, and is currently an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Other poems by Bob Hicok in Verse Daily:
March 29, 2012:   "My Francis Bacon essay" "Francis Bacon's people have bacon faces. I want to heat them..."
March 15, 2012:   "Places that have become me" "Poor starling in the B concourse of Logan Airport. You do not..."
February 16, 2012:   "Words, what is the word, matter" "'You broke my kneecaps' makes more sense..."
January 21, 2010:   "Aubade with whales" "Kyle spiffed stiffs..."
August 25, 2009:   "Certainly Uncertain: a love of tone poem" "Here is the place I am thinking..."
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...."

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Other poems on the web by Bob Hicok:
"The ongoing"
Two poems
"Poem to the life force "
"Having Intended to Merely Pick on an Oil Company, the Poem Goes Awry"
"Straightforward"
"In the Loop"
"A poem of place"
"Goodbye"
"As I Was Saying"
"Hard work is its own reward"
"Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem"
"Confessions of a Nature Lover"
Five poems
Two poems
Thirteen poems
"A History of Origami"
Twenty-four poems
"Wistful sounds like a brand of air freshener"
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.

"What Hicok’s getting at is both the necessity and the inadequacy of language, the very bluntness of which (talk about a paradox) makes it all the more essential that we engage with it as a precision instrument, a force of clarity, of (at times) awful grace."
—LA Times