The Visiting Writer Series, sponsored by the English Department and the College of Liberal Studies Presents a Reading by Rick Barot & Jerico Lenk. 

Rick Barot's most recent book of poems is Moving the Bones, published by Milkweed Editions. His previous collection, The Galleons, was longlisted for the National Book Award. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Adroit Journal, and The New Yorker.  He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Stanford University.  He is a Professor of English at PLU and directs the Rainier Writing Workshop, PLU’s low-residency MFA program in creative writing.

Jerico Lenk is a poet and prose writer whose work unapologetically hops form and genre. He has received and / or been nominated for prizes such as the Pushcart, Best New Poets, Best American Short Stories, and the Walter Dean Myers Award, and was most recently selected for the Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology, a project of the Washington State Poet Laureate Arianne True. Alumming the University of South Florida English and History departments, Jerico completed his MFA at the University of Washington with thesis work in adaptation literature as both generative process and literary criticism (long live fanfic). One of his current projects is a hybrid novel-thing employing fracture/disjuncture to narratively embody—and make visible—ad/hd patterns of thought, feeling, memory, and identity. He lives in Seattle with his partner and if you asked his students, they’d say his favorite things are ghosts, gay ancient Greeks, manga and FFVII, and his cat.
They wouldn’t be wrong.