Poems

“That Swerve that Takes Me Somewhere Else”: An Interview with Rick Barot

“That Swerve that Takes Me Somewhere Else”: An Interview with Rick Barot

ByMatthew Thorburn

Rick Barot’s poems are assured, finely composed structures in which memory and emotion often take startling, deeply moving turns. He is the author of three books of poems, including The Darker Fall and Want. Rick was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now lives in Tacoma, Washington. He…

So Long, Dear Writer

So Long, Dear Writer

ByTim Ellison

  The poet C.K. Williams died this Sunday, September 20, 2015. For the last few months I’ve been enjoying a review copy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s beautiful new collection of Williams’ poems, the Selected Later Poems, but I’m finding that now, in light of Williams’ death, I can’t read the book in quite the…