Rick Barot’s most recent collection of poems is Moving the Bones, published by Milkweed Editions in 2024. He directs the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.
Poetry
Fall 2009
Exegesis in Wartime
Hemingway has a sentence that I think of as a masterpiece of small engineering. Think of a paper clip: small, plain, but someone had to think of it, actually make […]