Poetry. "SHADOWS OF HOUSES, H. L. Hix's new collection, is both vatic and precise. Patiently looking at and through the quotidian, Hix registers the tiny and immense phenomena of change and variation the seasons and hours bring. The remarkable sequence "The God of Window Screens and Honeysuckle" is a compendium of outer and inner weather--a naturalist's, neighbor's, philosopher's, and poet's almanac, and a source of wisdom and beauty I shall regularly return to"--Rachel Hadas. H.L. Hix is the author of three books of poetry and four books of criticism, most recently AS EASY AS LYING: ESSAYS ON POETRY. He is also editor of an anthology, WILD AND WHIRLING WORDS. Hix has won many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a fellowship from Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain. Hix is currently the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

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Harvey Lee Hix (born 1960), who signs his work H.L. Hix, is an American poet and academic. Hix is the author of books of poetry, criticism and essays and has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA. He has also won the KCAI Teaching Excellence Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry (from Truman State University Press in Missouri, no relation to the more famous prize in Britain). In 2006 he was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. He is a professor and the director of the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wyoming.