Bob Hicok

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

He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business.

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.

[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.