Biography of Dick Allen

Dick Allen’s sixth and seventh collections are The Day Before (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)

Poems

• Bravo

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)

Poems

• Hope Is A Thing With Feathers That Smacks Into A Window

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)

Poems

• Hope Is A Thing With Feathers That Smacks Into A Window

Biography of Mary Jo Bang

Poems

• Speech Is Designed To Persuade