Poetry Reading
Wednesday, May 9, 2007  from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
University Gallery
Bob Hicok, winner of the 3rd annual Anne Halley Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Massachussetts Review, will read in the University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, from his prize-winning new volume, This Clumsy Living.
Hicok’s first book, The Legend of Light, was chosen by Carolyn Kizer for the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize; it was later chosen an ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year. Other collections of poetry include, Plus Shipping and Animal Soul, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Insomnia Diary. Hicok’s poems have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Poetry, & The American Poetry Review, as well as three volumes of The Best American Poetry. Awarded an NEA Fellowship in 1999, his work has also been reprinted in the Pushcart Anthology.
The Anne Halley Poetry Prize is named in memorial for Anne Halley, to honor her 25 years of work as poetry co-editor of the Massachusetts Review as well as her work as a poet and writer. Her last collection of poetry, Rumors of the Turning Wheel, was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2003.
Reception will follow the reading.