Rick Barot (born February 19, 1969) is an American poet and educator.[1]
Rick Barot | |
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| Born | February 19, 1969 Philippines |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, educator |
| Education | Wesleyan University Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Website | |
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Life
editBarot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers Workshop.[2]
He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Want (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord (2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award.[2] He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry.[3][4][5][6]
Barot is the poetry editor of New England Review. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.[2] He is also the director of the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University. He previously taught at the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College.[2] His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Little Containers For Safekeeping: A Conversation With Rick Barot - The Rumpus.net". therumpus.net. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- ^ a b c d "Bio | RickBarot.com". rickbarot.com. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- ^ "Rick Barot". Poetry Foundation. 2019-08-04. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- ^ Poets, Academy of American. "About Rick Barot | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- ^ "Rick Barot". NEA. 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rick Barot". Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- ^ The Galleons. 2019-08-27.