What's good friends. This week we get down with getting back into the swing of "the poetry world." We also sat down with Rick Barot and got taken all the way to school. He dropped so much knowledge on art and the body and the state of contemporary American poetry. Hurry up and listen already!
RICK BAROT was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002); Want (2008); 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. He is also the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at PLU. His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2020.
THOSE WINTER GIN AND TONICS: What did we know, what did we know of a gin and tonic’s potential to be a winter cocktail? Nothing! (Until we invented this version). The addition of Amaro Averna and fresh blood orange give the refreshing G&T you know and love some deeper bitter notes and a blink more sweetness. The title of the drink alludes to the famous, heartbreaking sonnet “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden.
Ingredients: Gin (we used Seattle-based Big Gin), Tonic Water, Amaro Averna, Blood Orange
Paisley Rekdal reads Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "Black Swan"
Paisley Rekdal + The Dark Sister
Taneum Bambrick reads Aria Aber's "The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine"
Taneum Bambrick + End of Tour Toddy
Oliver de la Paz reads Laura Jensen's "Bad Boats"
Oliver de la Paz + The Long Line
Bettina Judd reads from Aracelis Girmay's "The Black Maria"
Bettina Judd + JOY! Spritzes
Bill Carty reads Jennifer Chang's "Dorothy Wordsworth"
Bill Carty + Grecian Laurel 75
Jericho Brown reads Lucille Clifton's "The Lost Baby Poem"
Jericho Brown + The Bizzy Izzy
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Hanif reads Angela Veronica Wong's "Elsa Was Stabbed To Death She Had Her Key"
Hanif Abdurraqib + Sprite
Erika Meitner reads Campbell McGrath's "Night Travelers"
Erika Meitner + Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores
Ross Gay reads Gerald Stern's "The Dog"
Ross Gay + Spoiling Orchard
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