Rick Hilles
Associate Professor
Rick Hilles is the author of Brother Salvage (winner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and named 2006 Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord Magazine) and A Map of the Lost World (February 2012), listed as a “Top Pick” on Library Journal’s website, both with the University of Pittsburgh Press and three chapbooks, most recently My Roberto Clemente (2021/2022), which won the 2020 Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook competition, with C&R Press. Among his honors are a Fulbright, a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and fellowships from the Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), the Stegner Program at Stanford, and the Institute for Creative Writing at U.W.-Madison.
Representative publications
Books
A Map of the Lost World, Brother Salvage; limited editions: Preparing for Flight, A Visionary’s Company
Poems, essays, and translations have appeared in: American Literary Review, Blackbird, Boston Review, Columbia Magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Field, Five Points, Harper’s, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination (Oxford), Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Narrative, The Nation, New Letters, New Republic, New South, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Plume Poetry, Poetry, Salmagundi, Salt Hill Review, Southeast Review, Southern Review, Western Humanities Review, and Witness and in other literary venues; his work as also appearedn many anthologies.
Recent Poems
“All The Love in the World” in New Letters: https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-week-2021-2022/poem-week/late-valentine-rick-hilles
“Late Valentine” in Narrative Magazine: https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-week-2021-2022/poem-week/late-valentine-rick-hilles
“To Earth” in The Southern Review: https://thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Winter-2022/259/ or https://muse.jhu.edu/article/842712
“My Polish” and “Another Poem I Can’t Show…” can be found at: https://plumepoetry.com/author/hilles-rick/
“To Misunderstanding” from the Kenyon Review: https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2020-julyaug/selections/rick-hilles-763879/
“My Brother, The Poet, at Nineteen” and “In the Book of Spells” from American Literary Review: https://americanliteraryreview.com/2020/07/17/rick-hilles/