This Monday, March 2, I’ll have the pleasure of reading with Rick Barot at the Federal Way Library at 7p.
Here’s a brief excerpt from his marvelous poem “Tarp,” (you can hear him read the whole thing online at poetryfoundation.org.)
I could go on
this way until the end of the page, even though
what I have in my mind isn’t the thing
itself, but the category of belief that sees the thing
as a shelter for what is beneath it.
Rick is the author of three collections of poems; the most recent is CHORD, which will be published by Sarabande Books this July. He’s also the poetry editor of New England Review. Read more about Rick and his work.