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book review

big ole hearty thank you to Zach Groesbeck for his review of this sugarbaby Hick Po.

mirth!  shelly & abe & lost roads

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yes, aubrey lenahan!  

show us yours!

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how many hicks can we fit in missoula?  

montana book fest here we come!  sept 11 at 330 is our big ole ballyhoo, get ready!

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University of Arizona Poetry Center:  thanks so much for having us!  

Here is editor Shelly Taylor speaking about the genesis and process of making Hick Po as part of the Whitman Summer Social.

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HICK PO EDITORS + MANY AUTHORS WILL BE AT THIS YEAR’S MT BOOK FEST, SEPT 10-12 IN MISSOULA!  

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YALL IN BIG SKY COUNTRY!

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Interview with author Carolyn Hembree on winning the 2015 Trio Award for her second book Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague.

Do you think this book falls under the hick poetics category? Can you talk a bit about that (what is hick poetics, for those who aren't familiar with the anthology, and where does your poetics fall along the "hick" spectrum?

Considering the incredible poets in the Lost Roads anthology Hick Poetics—Berssenbrugge, Herrera, Powell, and Wier among them—I’m honored that my poems, at least to editors Abraham Smith and Shelly Taylor, fall under this category. As stated on the Lost Roads website, the anthology explores “the liminal, the rural, the great American wilds.” Certainly, my second collection’s setting, rural Appalachia, satisfies this definition. As for subject matter, the personal questions that compelled me to write Rigging – metaphysical and spiritual ones – led me to the hills I came from; traveling and researching the region led me to more questions about physics, genetics, my body, gender. Such is the recursive character of creative process.

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them’s tyler gobble’s legs / that’s the one & only hick po / keep em coming!