Barbara Hamby. Courtesy Outside of a Cat.
Barbara Hamby (born 1952) is an American poet, fiction writer, editor, and critic.
Life[]
Hamby was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Hawaii.[1]
Her poems have been printed in numerous publications and her first book of poetry, Delirium (1995), received literary recognition. She lives with her husband and fellow poet David Kirby in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a writer in residence in the Creative Writing Program, and he is a professor, both with the English Department at Florida State University.
Recognition[]
Awards[]
- Vassar Miller Prize for Delirium
- Norma Farber First Book Award (Poetry Society of America) for Delirium
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award (1996) for Delirium
- New York University Poetry Prize (1998) for The Alphabet of Desire
- Donald Hall Prize in Poetry (Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2003) for Babel
- 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award
- 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Skin: Poems. Eugene, OR: Silverfish Review Press, 1995.
- Delirium. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1995. ISBN 1-57441-002-4, paperback ISBN 1-57441-003-2
- The Alphabet of Desire. New York: New York University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8147-3597-5, paperback ISBN 0-8147-3598-3
- Babel: Poems. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8229-5859-7
- All-Night Lingo Tango: Poems Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. ISBN 0-8229-6017-6
- On the Street of Divine Love: New and selected poems. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Short fiction[]
- Lester Higata's 20th Century. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2010.
Edited[]
- Seriously Funny: Poems about love, death, religion, art, politics, sex, and everything else (edited with David Kirby). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010. ISBN 0-8203-3569-X
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]
Poetry@Tech Barbara Hamby
See also[]
References[]
- "Poet of Pop", Research in Review, Florida State University, Winter 2004. (Retrieved September 6, 2006)
Notes[]
- ↑ Barbara Hamby, Poetry Foundation, Web, Sep. 29, 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:Barbara Hamby, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 8, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Mambo Cinema" at Guernica.
- "Betrothal in B minor"
- "Ode to American English"
- Barbara Hamby at the Poetry Foundation.
- Links to poems online.
- Audio / video
- Books
- Barbara Hamby at Amazon.com
- About
- Barbara Hamby Official website.
- An Interview with Barbara Hamby at Story South, 2005
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