Poetry. "Rick Campbell's poems move with grace and muscle and music...part prayer, part song, part gritty story"---Frank X . Gaspar. "Campbell's poems are personal, even intimate, but their metaphors and meanings have a tough reality"---Iron Horse Review. Campbell's previous book was titled Setting the World in Order (2001). He is also the publisher of Anhinga Press.
Rick Campbell's newest book of poems is Dixmont, from Autumn House Press. His other books are The Traveler's Companion (Black Bay Books, 2004); and Setting The World In Order (Texas Tech 2001) which won the Walt McDonald Prize; and A Day's Work (State Street Press 2000);. He's won a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and two poetry fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. He's published poems and essays in many journals including The Georgia Review, The Florida Review, Prairie Schooner and many others. He is the director of Anhinga Press and the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and he teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. He now lives in Gadsden County, Florida, but was born on the Ohio River 20 miles downriver from Pittsburgh.
