Rick Barot In Conversation with Michael Dumanis

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join Michael Dumanis in a Q&A with visiting poet Rick Barot.

Rick Barot is the author of five books of poetry, including Moving the Bones (Milkweed, 2024); The Galleons (Milkweed, 2020), which was longlisted for the National Book Award; and Chord (Sarabande, 2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the 2020 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born in the Philippines, he lives in Tacoma, Washington, where he teaches at Pacific Lutheran University and directs the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program.

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