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Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok
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Bob Hicok

Born: '1960'

Bob Hicok was born in 1960 in Michigan and worked for many years in the automotive die industry. A published poet long before he earned his MFA, Hicok is the author of several collections of poems, including The Legend of Light, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry in 1995 and named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year; Plus Shipping (1998); Animal Soul (2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Insomnia Diary (2004); This Clumsy Living (2007), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress; Words for Empty, Words for Full (2010); Elegy Owed (2013), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Sex & Love (2016). His work has been selected numerous times for the Best American Poetry series. Hicok has won Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has taught creative writing at Western Michigan University and Virginia Tech.(Source)

Poems by Bob Hicok

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Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem by Bob Hicok

March 21, 2026
“Here, when I say I never want to be without you, / somewhere else I am saying / I never want to be without you again.” — Bob Hicok
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Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem by Bob Hicok

February 8, 2014
“Here, when I say I never want to be without you, / somewhere else I am saying / I never want to be without you again.” — Bob Hicok
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The Maple by Bob Hicok

September 1, 2010
“all morning / I've thought of the statement that art is about loneliness” — Bob Hicok
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One Interpretation of Your Silence by Bob Hicok

June 1, 2009
“If you'll try again I'll try again, / however trying we are.” — Bob Hicok