POETRY READING – ENID OSBORN & DANIEL THOMAS

Monday, February 9 at 6 PM

Chaucer’s Books (3321 State St., Santa Barbara) hosts local poets Enid Osborn and Daniel Thomas for a poetry reading of their latest works. 

About Pedregosa St.

Between 1997 and 2025, poet Enid Osborn lived in a 2-story Italianate Victorian house built circa 1902 in Westside Santa Barbara, California, in a cul-de-sac abutting the railroad and freeway. Blending autobiography, magic realism and fiction, Osborn paints a picture of a charmed-if-spartan life. Poems focus mainly on the early years of her tenancy, when the house stood amid a crumbling neighborhood in gang territory–an area which was gentrified in later years. Subthemes include trains, insomnia, ghosts, rats, birds, colorful neighbors, surviving cancer, and living long enough in one place to play a bit role in its metamorphosis.

About River of Light

River of Light begins in the gathering headwaters of grief and blessing, then floats through the confluence and flow of Eastern spiritual practices. At its delta, it enters the sea with poems about light and death and speculation on the afterlife.  The title poem takes its inspiration from Canto 30 of Dante’s Paradiso and Monet’s dictum that “the real subject of every painting is light.”