Harvey Lee Hix (born 1960) is an American poet and academic. Hix is an author of books of poetry, criticism and essays and has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA (

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...

). He has also won the KCAI Teaching Excellence Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, which was a publication award from Truman State University Press for his volume ''Rational Numbers'' (2000). In

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

he was a finalist for the

National Book Award for Poetry The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".

. He is a professor and former director of the creative writing MFA program at the

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."Hix, H.L. 'Harvey'"
, ''Wyoming Authors Wiki'', accessed December 15, 2006

Life

Hix received his bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from

Belmont University Belmont University is a Private university, private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Descended from Belmont Women's College, founded in 1890 by schoolteachers Ida Hood and Susan Heron, the institution was incorporate ...

in 1982, magna cum laude; his master's degree in philosophy from the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

in 1985; and his doctorate in philosophy from the same institution in 1987. He has taught in a number of positions at the

Kansas City Art Institute The Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) is a private art school in Kansas City, Missouri. The college was founded in 1885 and is an accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and Higher Learning Commission. The institute ...

— lecturer-in-residence, 1987–1988; assistant professor, 1988–1994; associate professor, 1994–1998; professor, 1998–2002; interim vice president for academic affairs, 1996–1998. Later he was vice president for academic affairs and professor at the

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. He has been MFA program director and professor at the

since 2005."Department of English/ H. L. Hix, Professor/ MFA Program Director"
University of Wyoming Web site, accessed December 15, 2006

Books

Poetry

* ''Incident Light'',

Etruscan Press Etruscan Press is a literary press associated with Wilkes University (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) in partnership with Youngstown State University (Youngstown, Ohio Youngstown is a city in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States, and its county ...

(

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

) * * ''Chromatic'',

(

) * ''Shadows of Houses'',

(

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

) * ''Surely As Birds Fly'', Truman State University Press (March

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

, paperback) * ''Rational Numbers'', Truman State University Press (

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

) * ''Perfect Hell'', Gibbs Smith (August

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

)

Prose

* * ''As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry''

(

) * * * * ''Morte d'Author: An Autopsy'', Temple University Press (

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

)

Translations

* * * ''City of Ash'', Eugenijus Ališanka, Northwestern University Press (

)

Edited books

* * * ''A Casebook on The Tunnel'', Web-published, Dalkey Archive (

) * ''Poets At Large: 25 Poets in 25 Homes'', Helicon Nine (

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

)

Notes

External links

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