PERIE LONGO, Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara (2007-2009), leader of poetry workshops for over 25 years with the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, California-Poets-in-the-Schools, as well as privately. She is author of three poetry collections, as well as a CD of her spoken poetry, and has published frequently in literary journals and anthologies. Perie has been Poet-in-Residence at several local schools, and has taught at UCLA, SBCC, and is currently adjunct faculty of Antioch University, Santa Barbara. She has been a textbook contributor of articles such as The Magic of Metaphor, and Turning the Darkness Down: Poetry as Therapy. In 2005 she was invited speaker to the University of Kuwait, to speak on Reading and Writing Poetry as a Way to Peace. Recently, Perie has been featured on the Charles Osgood radio show and on the Huntington Post.
BARRY SPACKS, first Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara (2005-2007), teaches at UCSB and has published ten poetry collections, the most extensive being Spacks Street: New and Selected Poems from Johns Hopkins, and including Regarding Women, winner of the Cherry Grove Collections Prize, and The Hope of the Air from Michigan State University Press. His latest book, 2008, is Food for the Journey, also from Cherry Grove. He's a singer/songwriter, has shown frequently as a painter over the past forty years, and has brought out three poetry-reading CDs, two novels, many stories, and over 400 individual poems in paper and pixel.
DAVID STARKEY, Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara (2009-2011) and recipient of two Fullbright Scholar Awards, is Director of The Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College and leads poetry workshops at The Santa Barbara Writers Conference. He hosts "The Creative Community," an arts-oriented television program, and is the author of textbooks Keywords in Creative Writing and Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, as well as several books of poetry, most recently A Few Things You Should Know about the Weasel, Ways of Being Dead: New and Selected Poems, Adventures of the Minor Poet, and Starkey's Book of States. His next full-length collection, It Must Be Like the World, is scheduled to appear later this year.
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Santa Barbara Summer Poetry Workshop
TIM GREEN, Guest Speaker, will discuss "The Game of Getting Published". He is editor of the established and premier poetry journal, RATTLE Magazine, which has had:
Total Poets Published: 1,896
First-time Poets: 225
Pulitzer Prize Winners: 11
National Book Award Winners: 10
U.S. Poet Laureates: 7
