Poet

Bob Hicok

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Talk on craft
3:00 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium
Reading
7:30 P.M.—CSU Room 253

Bob Hicok’s fifth book, This Clumsy Living, was published in 2007. He is the author of Insomnia Diary, Animal Soul, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Plus Shipping, and The Legend of Light, which won the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year. A recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including the 1997, 1999, and 2006 volumes of Best American Poetry. He is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

See a writing sample by Hicok.

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To learn more about Hicok, see this web site.

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This year's Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Minnesota State University Department of English, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, and individual donors. This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature and the McKnight Foundation. This activity is also made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. MSU Library Services and Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Minnesota State offer additional support.