Virtual
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
Registration Required.
Seattle Arts & Lectures will be streaming the reading of Rick Barot, award-winning Tacoma poet. His latest book of poems, The Galleons (2020), is in part about the centuries-long colonial structure that sustained Spanish control over Latin and South America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines.
Jane Wong, who will be moderating the Q&A portion of Barot’s event, is the author of Overpour from Action Books, and How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.
Seattle Arts & Lectures will be able to stream Rick Barot’s event online, enabling you to hear his poetry from the safety of your home. Rick’s reading will only be available to ticket holders, streamed digitally on lectures.org, at the original date and time of his event. The event will also be available online for a week afterwards, so you can hit the “pause” button and return to it at your leisure. Closer to the event, ticket holders will be sent a password they will use to access his event with further instructions.
The Q&A portion of the evening, moderated by Jane Wong, the author of Overpour, will be FREE and open to the public on lectures.org.
Rick Barot
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.