About Bob Hicok and The Southern Review

Today's poem is "Endless"

from The Southern Review

Bob Hicok has received a Guggenheim and two NEA Fellowships, the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, nine Pushcart Prizes, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have been selected for inclusion in nine volumes of the Best American Poetry. His latest book, Water Look Away, will be published this year by Copper Canyon Press.
Other poems by Bob Hicok in Verse Daily:
February 16, 2019: "Here, now, gone" "We're standing in the road..."
November 7, 2018: "Tough-guy talk" "She hugged my paper route...."
November 17, 2016: "A Marxist interpretation of rivers" "I like money. I mean I like..."
August 1, 2016: "Love poem" "The woman I love..."
April 19, 2016: "I, hermit" "People scare me — most people and most..."
May 12, 2014: "The life-and-death world of carpentry" "So much sawdust on my glasses, I stare at the wind..."
May 13, 2013: "Elegy with lies" "This lost person I loved. Loved for a hundred years...."
March 29, 2012: "My Francis Bacon essay" "Francis Bacon's people have bacon faces. I want to heat them..."
March 15, 2012: "Places that have become me" "Poor starling in the B concourse of Logan Airport. You do not..."
February 16, 2012: "Words, what is the word, matter" "'You broke my kneecaps' makes more sense..."
January 21, 2010: "Aubade with whales" "Kyle spiffed stiffs..."
August 25, 2009: "Certainly Uncertain: a love of tone poem" "Here is the place I am thinking..."
July 4, 2009: "Deeply Impersonal" "This is a good way to take life in. The eyes...."
May 25, 2009: "Moving day" "When it's time, the hotels of Ardmore no longer interesting..."
February 16, 2009: "Palsy" "Ignoring the obvious is most of manners...."
July 2, 2008: "In a time of biblical references" "I've fallen behind. I have in fact..."
May 15, 2008: "A wedding night" "A groom goes out with a pillow to where the sheep..."
December 20, 2007: "A confluence of processes" "It was a kind of battery, the Earth..."
November 6, 2007: "A celebration of lasting achievment" " The man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died...."
June 19, 2006: "Love of Sport" " In the woods, place of tall and green, place of losing..."
June 15, 2006: "Fall" " Trees and the white room filling with the resistance..."
March 21, 2006: "Weather Report" " Cats are new to me is why I call them..."
June 21, 2005: "The Personal Touch" "I have fifteen cloud stamps, it says on the back..."
November 25, 2004: "Founder's day" "I introduced John Adams to the Pacific..."
March 8, 2004: "Building a painting a home" "If I built a barn I'd build it right into the sky..."
February 17, 2004: "Truth About Love" "I apologize for not being Gandhi or Tom..."
February 16, 2004: "Shopping at the ocean" "Trying to save the bug she killed the bug..."
December 24, 2002: "By their works" "Who cleaned up the Last Supper?..."
August 29, 2002: "Sorting the Entanglements" "In my will the basement goes to the spiders...."
July 14, 2002: "Whither Thou Goest" "Fish can have mad cow disease and I have a problem / with that...."
Books by Bob Hicok:

Other poems on the web by Bob Hicok:
Two poems
"A Braid of Unknowing I Tie Before You"
Two poems
"Redundancy Is Only a Problem When It Gets Repetitious:"
"I Am Wanting"
"Sometimes we elect the mirror we deserve"
Two poems
Eleven poems
Three poems
Nine poems
Three poems
Three poems
Six poems
"The ongoing"
Two poems
"Poem to the life force "
"Having Intended to Merely Pick on an Oil Company, the Poem Goes Awry"
"Straightforward"
"In the Loop"
"A poem of place"
"Goodbye"
"As I Was Saying"
"Hard work is its own reward"
"Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem"
Eleven poems
Five poems
Two poems
Thirteen poems
"A History of Origami"
Twenty-four poems
"Wistful sounds like a brand of air freshener"
Four poems
Five poems
"The map maker's faith"
"the dream"
"my life with a gardener"
"a nature film"
Nine poems
"Root root root for the home team"
"Slow going"
"Repast and future"
"My Career as a Director"
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
"Bedtime Story"
"Jornando del Muerto"
"Twins"
Eight poems
Eight poems
"Alzeimer's"
"The Quiet Americans"
"Only somewhat like a carousel"
"Ink"
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February 8, 2023: "Drink Me" by Bonnie Jo Campbell
October 14, 2022: "Erstwhile Island Gardener" by Lynne Knight
October 4, 2022: "The Problem With Maps" by Charles Rafferty
July 11, 2022: "Crown for the Girl Inside" by Lisa Low
July 8, 2022: "Because Everything Here Is a Brightness" by John Sibley Williams
July 7, 2022: "Last Day at Brinkwood" by Adam Vines
July 6, 2022: "Violin" by Gail Martin
July 5, 2022: "Quetzalcoatl in the City" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
May 11, 2022: "Milk" by Julia B. Levine
May 10, 2022: "Invoice" by Danielle Cadena Deulen
December 3, 2021: "I'm Thinking of a Few Spectacular Ways to Die" by Jeffrey Skinner
December 2, 2021: "For the Actor Luke Perry, Who Chose to Be Buried in a Biodegradable Funeral Suit Infused with Mushroom Mycelia" by Anna Journey
September 25, 2021: "Fairy Tale" by Amorak Huey
September 14, 2021: "An Offense" by Lee Upton
September 13, 2021: "Not a Bad World, Is It?" by Bruce Bond
February 24, 2021: "Poem After Watching An Inconvenient Truth With My Students" by Emma Bolden
February 23, 2021: "Dad Poem" by Joshua Bennett
February 22, 2021: "Foal" by Maggie Smith
January 15, 2021: "Presumptive Elegy for Ken" by Paul Guest
January 14, 2021: "The Mechanical Eves" by Rebecca Morgan Frank
January 13, 2021: "After the Fire" by Jane Springer
August 28, 2020: "If/When" by Catherine Pierce
May 7, 2020: "Invitation to Tender" by Lynne Knight
May 6, 2020: "So Much for America" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
April 23, 2020: "Scuttle" by John A. Nieves
November 11, 2019: "The Horn of Plenty Sits Empty" by Meghan McClure
November 10, 2019: "Only Autumn" by Barbara Swift Brauer
July 6, 2019: "Kick in the Jaw" Dan Albergotti
July 5, 2019: "Refraction at Twilight" Alice Friman
July 4, 2019: "The Father of Our Country" Kim Roberts
February 16, 2019: "Here, now, gone" Bob Hicok
August 24, 2017: Two poems by Stephen Gibson
August 22, 2017: "Virgule" by Michael McFee
August 21, 2017: "Where Another Lets Go" by Paul Hunter
October 28, 2015: "Driving to Work" by A. M. Brandt
July 25, 2014: "To the Stars through Difficulties" by Christina Olson
May 12, 2014: "The life-and-death world of carpentry" by Bob Hicok
May 6, 2014: "Some Math, Some Words" by Bob Hicok
May 4, 2014: "Affirmative Action Babies" by Lynne Knight
November 25, 2013: "Confession" by Carrie Shipers
November 24, 2013: "Penillion of Riding Past the Radio Astronomy Observatory Amid Hedges and Fields" by John Kinsella
November 23, 2013: "Under the Sun" by Chard deNiord
November 22, 2013: "Alligators" by Kevin Prufer
January 11, 2013: "Mothering" by Michael McCarthy
January 9, 2013: "Zombie Preparedness Plan" by Mary Jo Firth Gillett
January 8, 2013: "feeder" by Beth Bachmann
November 9, 2012: "Straw Poll" by Michael McFee
November 8, 2012: "Somehow, We Are a We" by Kimberly Grey
September 24, 2012: "Daily" by John A. Nieves
September 21, 2012: "Why Our Mothers Panic" by Sarah Kain Gutowski
February 19, 2012: "Elegy for a Game" by Mary Ruefle
February 16, 2012: "Words, what is the word, matter" by Bob Hicok
January 26, 2012: "Thames Music" by William Wenthe
September 23, 2011: "Questions about the Wife" by Rebecca Hazelton
September 22, 2011: "Coxwain" by Nance Van Winckel
November 13, 2010: "The Former Pirate on His Way Back to Lisbon" by Weston Cutter
May 27, 2010: "Dead Telegram to a Dead Poet" by Bruce Cohen
March 2, 2010: "Teaching 'The Red Wheelbarrow' the Thirtieth Time" by Wendy Barker
January 9, 2010: "Elegy as Spot's Lift-the-Flap Book" by Victoria Chang
January 8, 2010: "An Algebra of Fifty" by Catherine Abbey Hodges
September 12, 2009: "I Was Thinking of Beauty" by Sydney Lea
September 11, 2009: "Cosmonauts" by Rhett Iseman Trull
June 5, 2009: "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Weston Cutter
June 3, 2009: "Rain on the Roof" by Beverley Bie Brahic
June 2, 2009: "Questions about Birds" by Billy Collins
February 20, 2009: "Holidays and Sundays" by David Bottoms
November 21, 2008: "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
November 20, 2008: "Patterns" by Theodore Worozbyt
August 29, 2008: "A Convincing Story" by Beth Bretl
August 28, 2008: "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman
August 27, 2008: "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown
August 26, 2008: "Settle" by Chanda Feldman
May 11, 2008: "Midden" by Brendan Galvin
February 3, 2008: "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel
January 29, 2008: "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay
November 10, 2007: "Columba livia" by Sandra Meek
November 9, 2007: "Poltergeist" by Jennifer Metsker
November 6, 2007: "A celebration of lasting achievment" by Bob Hicok
August 5, 2007: "Be the Dog" by J. Allyn Rosser
August 2, 2007: "Haruspicy" by Sarah Hannah
June 6, 2007: "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez
June 5, 2007: "Something in My Eye" by Allison Smythe
February 9, 2007: "Mysterious Ways" by Alison Pelegrin
September 15, 2006: "God of The" by Garrett Doherty
September 14, 2006: "One Morning a Rose Blooms" by Richard Tillinghast
September 13, 2006: "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006: "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006: "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006: "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006: "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006: "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004: "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004: "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004: "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004: "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004: "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004: "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004: "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004: "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004: "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004: "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004: "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003: "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
August 19, 2003: "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003: "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003: "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
June 5, 2003: "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
May 1, 2003: "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003: "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002: "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002: Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002: "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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