St. Louis Poetry Center
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Saint Louis, MO 63103
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT
St. Louis Poetry Center’s Observable series features local and national poets sharing recently published and new work. On Nov. 1st at 3pm CT, tune in for a reading with poets Rick Barot, author of The Galleons, and Benjamin Garcia, author of Thrown in the Throat. Learn more here.
Rick Barot
Benjamin Garcia
Benjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Thrown in the Throat is a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times.
In The Galleons, Rick Barot widens his scope, contextualizing the immigrant journey of his Filipino-American family in the larger history and aftermath of colonialism.