Rick Barot and Christian Gullette
Join us for a poetry reading celebrating new books by Rick and Christian!
Friday, January 17th, 6:30-8pm (Doors open at 6pm)
Location: Left Margin LIT, 1543 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley.
Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published five volumes of poetry: The Darker Fall; Want; Chord; which received the UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award; and The Galleons, which was on the longlist for the National Book Award in Poetry. His latest poetry collection is titled Moving the Bones. Rick lives in Tacoma, Washington, and directs the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University.
PLUS: There's still room in Rick's Saturday morning (1/18) poetry class, "The Art of Storytelling: Structure and Surprise in Poems." Check it out.
Christian Gullette’s debut poetry collection Coachella Elegy won the Trio House Press Trio Award. In The Washington Post Book Club, Ron Charles praised Coachella Elegy, writing, “These cool, elegantly controlled poems are about struggling to find peace in a frightening world.” Christian's poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series (selected by Diane Seuss).
