Read an Excerpt of a Bob Hicok Interview for The Believer October 3, 2012: Matthew Sherling conducted a full interview with Bob Hicok to be published in the next issue, but you can take a hit of it now over at The Believer's Tumblr. Here's some: MS: Your poetry is often very playful. But what’s interesting to me is how you oscillate between the humorous and the heavy. How do you see this oscillation [...] by Harriet Staff

Wear John Ashbery’s head at your own peril December 18, 2010: On the Huffington Post, Anis Shivani asks 22 poets to name who they believe is the most important contemporary poet and what influence that poet has had on his or her work. First up is H.L. Hix, who sets the tone well by pointing out the many ways that "important" can be defined and how little it actually says about the chosen poet in relation to [...] by Harriet Staff