Sex & Love &

Lead with your strength, so let’s go with the subjects of the title: sex and love… with that provocative ending conjunction &

Hicok’s books are consistently well reviewed, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Boston Review, and his last book from Copper Canyon was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

Bob Hicok is considered one of the most prolific poets writing today, publishing hundreds of poems in a wide variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review.

Hicok has a dual appeal: He once owned his own automotive die design company, so has a real-world perspective and diction. Today he works in academia, though he has no academic degree.

When Hicok was just beginning as a poet, he often read at slams and open mics in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as he preferred the towny scene of sub shops and bars to the world of the University of Michigan.