Bartholomew Barker

Poet

Hillsborough, NC
North Carolina US
Email: 
bart.barker@gmail.com
Website: 
www.bartbarkerpoet.com
RSS feed: 
bartbarker.wordpress.com/feed/

Author's Bio

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2021 and the Best of the Net Anthology in 2024. His work has appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Panoply, Tipton Poetry Journal, the Gyroscope Review and the Naugatuck River Review among others. www.bartbarkerpoet.com

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Social Justice Inks (Prolific Pulse Press, 2022)
,
Heart Beats (Prolific Pulse Press, 2021)
,
Silent Screams: Poetic Journeys Through Addiction & Recovery (University Professors Press, 2017)
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In Gilded Frame (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2013)
,
Point Mass (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2013)
Journals:
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
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Contemporary American Voices
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Dark Sire
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Dissident Voice
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Friends Journal
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Gyroscope Review
,
Last Leaves Magazine
,
Lothlorien Poetry Journal
,
MockingHeart Review
,
Naugatuck River Review
,
North of Oxford
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Oddball Magazine
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Panoply
,
Parody
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Postcard Poems and Prose
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Sledgehammer Lit
,
Spank the Carp
,
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
,
The Lake
,
Tipton Poetry Journal
Prizes won: 

Flapper Press Poetry Café 2023 Summer Ekphrastic Poetry Contest

More Information

Gives readings: 
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Travels for readings: 
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Last update: Oct 11, 2025