Dick Allen reads his poems that have appeared in Smartish Pace, Issues 3, 8, 10 and 16. Most images are of Mr. Allen and his home. Intro/Outro music by Editor Stephen Reichert.
Biography of Dick Allen
Dick Allen’s sixth and seventh collections are The Day Befo re (2003) and Present Vanishing (2008), both from Sarabande. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry (Scribner) five times. He lives in Trumbull, Connecticut. (2009)
Bob Hicok discusses economic hardship in Michigan and reads a new poem.
Biography of Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Insomnia Diary (2004) and This Clumsy Living (2007), both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Other books include Animal Soul (Invisible Cities, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Plus Shipping (BOA, 1998); and The Legend of Light (Wisconsin, 1995), which won the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Having owned a successful die design business, he is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. He read in the Smartish Pace reading series on December 12, 2006 at The Walters Art Museum. His poems appear in Smartish Pace , Issues 12 and 15. (2008)
Biography of Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Insomnia Diary (2004) and This Clumsy Living (2007), both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Other books include Animal Soul (Invisible Cities, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Plus Shipping (BOA, 1998); and The Legend of Light (Wisconsin, 1995), which won the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Having owned a successful die design business, he is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. He read in the Smartish Pace reading series on December 12, 2006 at The Walters Art Museum. His poems appear in Smartish Pace , Issues 12 and 15. (2008)
Chad Davidson reading his poem "Golden-Clad, Something Nice" for Smartish Pace at AWP in Chicago; Feb. 14, 2009. Is that a trash can? Yes, it is.
Biography of Chad Davidson
Chad Davidson is the author of The Last Predicta (2008) and Consolation Miracle (2003), both from Southern Illinois UP, as well as co-author with Gregory Fraser of Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009). He has work forthcoming or recently appearing in DoubleTake , Ploughshares , Prairie Schooner , Virginia Quarterly Review , and others, and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of West Georgia near Atlanta. His work appears in Smartish Pace , Issues 12 & 15. (2009)
David Lehman reading his "Poem for Obama" on January 12, 2009.
Biography of David Lehman
David Lehman is the series editor of The Best American Poetry (Scribner), which he initiated in 1988. When a Women Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005) and Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (with James Cummins, Soft Skull, 2005) are the most recent of his seven books of poems. He is also the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford, 2006). His poems appear in Smartish Pace , Issue 15. (2008)
