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The MFA Programs in Writing presents poet Rick Barot

The MFA Programs in Writing presents a reading by poet Rick Barot.

Wednesday
January 22, 2014
6:00 p.m.

Humanities Instructional Building 135

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Rick Barot attended Wesleyan University and The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has published two books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), and Want (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Threepenny Review. His work has been included in numerous anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, The Best American Poetry 2012, and Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation. He lives in Tacoma, Washington and is an associate professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University; he is also on the poetry faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His third book, Chord, will be published by Sarabande in 2015.

For more information contact Laura Swendson at (949) 824 - 6718 or laura.s@uci.edu.