Bob Hicok

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Bob Hicok
Born1960 (age 6465)
Grand Ledge, Michigan, U.S.
OccupationPoet
Education Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA)
Notable awards Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry (2008)

Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. [1]

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Life

Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 2003 with the exception of the 2015-2016 academic year when he taught at Purdue as a full-time Associate Professor. [2] [3] [4] He subsequently returned to Virginia Tech where he was promoted to full professor. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business. [5] He formerly taught at Western Michigan University. [6]

His first book, The Legend of Light, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press and chosen as an American Library Association Booklist Notable Book of the Year. Plus Shipping followed in 1998. His 2001 Animal Soul was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. [7] He has since published five more books, Insomnia Diary (2004) This Clumsy Living (2007) Words for Empty and Words for Full (2010) with University of Pittsburgh Press, Elegy Owed (2013) [8] and Sex & Love & (2016) [9] with Copper Canyon Press. His most recent book, Hold, was published in 2018 by Copper Canyon Press. [10] In 2004, after publishing four collections of poetry, Hicok (who previously had no undergraduate or graduate degree) earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. [11]

Awards

Bibliography

Collections

Anthologies

List of poems

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Blue prints2013Hicok, Bob (Mar–Apr 2013). "Blue prints". The Believer. 11 (3): 49.Elegy owed
Origin story2017Hicok, Bob (August 21, 2017). "Origin story". The New Yorker. 93 (24): 46–47.
Man of the house??Walsh, William, ed. (2006). Under the rock umbrella : contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. p. 163.
The new math??Walsh, William, ed. (2006). Under the rock umbrella : contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. pp. 163–164.
Peoria??Walsh, William, ed. (2006). Under the rock umbrella : contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. pp. 165–165.
Remedy2021Hicok, Bob (September 20, 2021). "Remedy". The New Yorker. 97 (29): 38.
ROTC??Walsh, William, ed. (2006). Under the rock umbrella : contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. pp. 165–166.
Elements2023Hicok, Bob. (April 24, 2023). "Elements". Granta.Online Edition.
None of the above2025Hicok, Bob. (June 1, 2025). "None of the above". 149 Review.1 (17)

Notes

  1. "Poet Hicok Reflects on Economic Hardships in Mich. | Online NewsHour | April 30, 2009". Archived from the original on 2009-05-04.
  2. https://www.cla.purdue.edu/faculty-staff/profiles/new/archive/2015.html [ bare URL ]
  3. https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-english/faculty/bob-hicok.html [ bare URL ]
  4. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/bob-hicok [ bare URL ]
  5. "About Bob Hicok | Academy of American Poets".
  6. "Bob Hicok". 19 September 2021.
  7. Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine Poets and Writers Inc., Feb. 01, 2001
  8. "Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok".
  9. "Sex & Love & by Bob Hicok".
  10. "Hold by Bob Hicok".
  11. "Interview // Bob Hicok -". 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
  12. "Guggenheim Foundation 2008 Fellows". Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
  13. Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry – Poetry (Library of Congress) Archived 2008-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  14. Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing . Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  15. "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Archived from the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.