About Rick Barot
Born 1969. Rick Barot is a poet and university teacher.
Rick Barot (born February 19, 1969) is an American poet and educator.
Life Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers Workshop.
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.
Barot is the poetry editor of New England Review. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.
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Filipino American poet
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Rick Barot was born on 19 February 1969 in Philippines.
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Rick Barot is a poet and university teacher.
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