Barbara Hamby is a professor at Florida State University, specializing in poetry and fiction. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Holoholo (2021) and Bird Odyssey (2018). Her book of linked stories, Lester Higata's 20th Century, won the 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award/John Simmons Award and was published by the University of Iowa Press. She also co-edited an anthology of poetry, Seriously Funny, with her husband David Kirby. She was a 2010 Guggenheim fellow in poetry. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, and many other many other magazines, as well as Best American Poetry 2000, 2009 and 2010.

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem titled “Happiness.”

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write an ode to an object in the room you’re in.

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