Writer Rick Barot's most recent book of poems, The Galleons, was longlisted for the National Book Award. His first book, The Darker Fall, was published by Sarabande Books in 2002. He has received Fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Civitella Ranieri.
His book of poems, Want, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and received the Grub Street Book Prize. In 2020, he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
At MacDowell in 2001, he worked on his second collection of poetry, Want. In 2008, he worked on his third collection, Chord. During residence in 2012, Barot revised his third book of poems and completed a new collection of essays on poetry and art. In 2022, he completed poems for his new book, Moving the Bones (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
Portrait by Rachel McCauley
