Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. He is the author of the collection The Galleons (Milkweed Editions) and three previous volumes of poetry: The Darker Fall; Want, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 GrubStreet National Book Prize; and Chord. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, Kenyon Review, and The New Yorker, and he is the poetry editor for the New England Review. He will be at Miami Book Fair 2022 as the National Poetry Series moderator for ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) queer poet and educator No’u Revilla, author of Ask the Brindled: Poems (Milkweed Editions).
February 18, 2025
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Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. He is the author of the collection The