Gary Hawkins

Biography

Gary Hawkins has lived with his wife and their two dogs in Houston for the past five years, but they are now brand-new Oklahomans. He’ll join and develop a new expository writing program at the University of Oklahoma this fall. Not even this move has convinced him that he doesn’t need a fourth copy of Emily Dickinson.

See Work

POETRY / Fall 2004

Holding onto Firmaments

By Gary Hawkins

He is in the open laying something softer down.
Leaves as tokens weigh the ground
And twigs as sextants pull the low sun.

POETRY / Fall 2004

Homebuilding

By Gary Hawkins

Where there were only dirt and needles,
I laid a floor of hardwood and shellac.
I plaited walls into the forest.