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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 Poetry |

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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.

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