Rick Barot

Rick Barot
Born (1969-02-19) February 19, 1969
Philippines
OccupationPoet, writer, educator
ResidenceTacoma, Washington, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationWesleyan University
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Website
rickbarot.com

Rick Barot is an American poet and educator.[1]

Life

Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.[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 Wallace E. 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 PLU. He previously taught at the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College.[2] His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, will be published by Milkweed Editions in February 2020.[7]

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References
  1. "Little Containers For Safekeeping: A Conversation With Rick Barot - The Rumpus.net". therumpus.net. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  2. "Bio | RickBarot.com". rickbarot.com. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  3. Foundation, Poetry (2019-08-04). "Rick Barot". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  4. Poets, Academy of American. "About Rick Barot | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  5. "Rick Barot". NEA. 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  6. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rick Barot". Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  7. The Galleons. 2019-08-27.
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