{"id":350,"date":"2026-02-13T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/?p=350"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:45:21","slug":"tim-seibles-reads-unity-chapel-april-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/tim-seibles-reads-unity-chapel-april-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Seibles Reads, Unity Chapel, April 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"376\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tim-seibles.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tim-seibles.jpeg 376w, http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tim-seibles-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The celebrated, award-winning poet\u00a0Tim Seibles, Poet Laureate of Virginia Emeritus, will come visit Santa Barbara after giving readings in Los Angeles for Poetry Month.\u00a0Hearing him read is a truly unique experience\u2014there\u2019s such energy, warmth, wisdom, and true humor in what he writes. His poems go straight to the heart! And such tenderness.\u00a0The poet and critic Cornelius Eady\u00a0said\u00a0of him:\u00a0\u201cWhen the world grows\u00a0nostalgic, he swings real. When the world tuns bitter, he stretches out his arms in verse. When the world tries to deny, he stares it in the face and tells the truth. Then asks it for a dance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday, April 13,&nbsp;&nbsp;5 to 7 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">at the Unity Chapel, 227 E. Arrellaga Street<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laure-Anne Bosselaar, host of the event, will read 3 or 4 poems&nbsp;<em>by other poets&nbsp;<\/em>she loves, then let Tim take over.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please donate $5 to cover the rental of the space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Seibles, poet, professor and the former Poet Laureate of Virginia, is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Voodoo Libretto: New and Selected Poems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gwit","category-national-poetry-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}