The Santa Barbara Summer Poetry Workshop is very pleased to announce that Deborah DeNicola from Lake Worth, Florida, is the 2009 poetry contest winner. Her winning poem is titled, I Am, I Will,

Honorable Mention:
Deb Stanton, "Anachronism"
Henrietta Sparks, "Marriage Suite"

We would like to thank all who entered their fine poems. They were a pleasure to read.

With best wishes,

Perie and Carol

9th Annual
SANTA BARBARA SUMMER
POETRY WORKSHOP
August 1-3, 2009
at Westmont College

Time spent exploring not just the crafting element,
but also the human element of a poem.

Led by
PERIE LONGO

with
BARRY SPACKS & DAVID STARKEY

PERIE LONGO, 2007-2009 Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, leader of poetry workshops for over 25 years with the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, California-Poets-in-the-Schools, as well as privately. A newspaper columnist, she is author of three poetry collections, as well as a CD of her spoken poetry. Perie has been Poet-in-Residence at several 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. Perie was Area-Coordinator for Santa Barbara California Poets in the Schools for over 20 years. 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)
poet and playwright, is the Director of The Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College and poetry workshop leader 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 collections of poetry, most recently Ways of Being Dead: New and Selected Poems, Adventures of the Minor Poet, Starkey's Book of States. His next book of poems, A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel, will be published in spring 2010 by the Canadian press Biblioasis.

INFORMATION 805-966-1423, 805-448-2044 

Place: Westmont College
955 La Paz Road
Santa Barbara, CA
805 - 565 - 6045 

Time: 9 am to 4pm each day

Fee $300

Cancellation policy: $200 refundable until July 4th

Info 805-966-1423 Carol
decanio3@netzero.net   
805-687-9535 Perie 

Please send fee to

SBSPW
237 Oliver Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93109  

POETRY CONTEST GUIDELINES

FEE
$12 per 3 poems (checks made out to SBSPW).
A refund will be given if the winner has registered and paid for the Workshop prior to winning.

SUBMISSIONS
Send 3 copies of each poem with your name removed. Include a separate cover sheet listing titles or first lines of each submitted poem, your name, address, phone number, email address, and any other relevant contact information

LINE LIMIT 45 lines per poem

POETRY CONTEST DEADLINE
Submission and contest must be postmarked by June 27.

SEND TO
SBSPW Poetry Contest P.O. Box 30302 Santa Barbara, CA 93130

The winner will be notified by July 2 and posted on our information websites: www.communityofvoices.blogspot.com www.sbpoetry.net   

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