Hollis Summers

Hollis S. Summers Jr. was an American poet, novelist, short story writer and editor.

Background and education

Born on June 21, 1916, in Eminence, Kentucky, Summers earned an A.B in English from Georgetown College in 1937, an M.A. from Middlebury College in 1943 and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1949.

Academic career

Summers worked in a variety of educational settings. From 1937 to 1944, he taught as an English teacher at Holmes High School in Covington, Kentucky. From 1944 to 1949, Summers worked at Georgetown College. And from 1949 to 1959, he served as Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Summers spent the majority of his academic career at Ohio University where he worked from 1959 until his retirement.

Books

;Coauthored with James F. Rourke, published under the pseudonym Jim Hollis

;Edited by Summers

;Summers served as editor

;Edited by Summers and Edgar Whan

;Coauthored with James F. Rourke, published under the pseudonym Jim Hollis

Periodical publication

;Poetry

"The Flicker." Beloit Poetry Journal, 5 : 117.
"Committee Meeting," Sewanee Review, 64 : 606.
"Mexico Picnic, October 31," Saturday Review, 40 : 54.
"Lexington, Kentucky," American Weave, 100 : 4–6.
"Seven Occasions for Song," Hudson Review, 15 : 86–87.
"Title: To Be Supplied," Western Humanities Review, 17 : 64.
"Waiting Bench with Figure," Midwest Quarterly, 7 : 96.
"The Gift," New Mexico Quarterly, 25 : 137.
"Snapshots of the Four Grandchildren," Atlantic, 217 : 113.
"Mercy," English Record, 19 : 28.
"Grace Before Calling the Nursing Home and the Jail," Southern Poetry Review, 16 : 83.

;Fiction

"Mister Joseph Potts," Paris Review, 8 : 107–121.
"The Prayer Meeting," Sewanee Review, 64 : 110–122.
"Cafe Nore," Epoch, 8 : 153–166.
"If You Don't Go Out the Way You Came In," Colorado Quarterly, 9 : 69–83.
"The Third Ocean," Hudson Review, 22 : 232–252.

;Nonfiction
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