Bob Hicok's new poetry collection is Insomnia Diary (University of Pittsburgh). His previous book, Animal Soul (Invisible Cities Press, 2001), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Recently his poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Georgia Review, and Poetry.

About The Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: Herman Asarnow, Rick Bass, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Cathryn Essinger, William Greenway, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Sydney Lea, Laura Long, Donald Platt, Jay Rogoff, Jeffrey Skinner, R.T. Smith, Catherine Staples, Liz Tilton, Daniel Tobin, Gyorgyi Voros, Charles Harper Webb