Barbara Hamby

Barbara Hamby (born 1952) is an American poet, fiction writer, editor, and critic.

Life

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She was born in New Orleans and raised in Hawaii. 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 a professor, both with the English Department at Florida State University.[1]

Awards and honors

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Bibliography

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Poetry

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Collections
  • Delirium : poems. Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press. 1995.
  • 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)[3]
  • On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014, ISBN 0-8229-6288-8)
  • Bird Odyssey (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, ISBN 0-8229-6525-9)
  • Holoholo (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN 9780822966586)
Anthologies (edited)
  • Seriously Funny: poetry anthology edited with David Kirby (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010, ISBN 0-8203-3569-X)
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Athena ode 2016 Hamby, Barbara (January 25, 2016). "Athena ode". The New Yorker. 91 (45): 42.
Ode on luck 2022 Hamby, Barbara (May 30, 2022). "Ode on luck". The New Yorker. 98 (14): 38–39.

Short fiction

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Collections
  • Lester Higata's 20th Century: stories (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010, ISBN 1-58729-918-6)

Critical studies and reviews of Hamby's work

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On the Street of Divine Love

References

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  1. ^ "Poets speak up to support Refuge House". Tallahassee Democrat. USA Today Network. April 25, 1999. p. 9D. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Ryals, Mary Jane (April 25, 1999). "Barbara Hamby weaves a rich, poetic 'Alphabet of Desire'". Tallahassee Democrat. p. 2D. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Meredith, Donna (March 8, 2009). "Let's dance". Tallahassee Democrat. pp. 1D–2D. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  • "Poet of Pop", Research in Review, Florida State University, Winter 2004. (Retrieved September 6, 2006)
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