{"id":2,"date":"2025-11-02T20:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:45:40","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0009407c wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0009407c wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-asterisk\">Poetry Happens Here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-container-content-4f2ccadb\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-border-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"border-color:#51677c;border-width:4px;background-color:#e5e9ee\">Santa Barbara is a thriving creative community which includes poets and poetry lovers of all kinds. Santa Barbara even has its own poetry press, Gunpowder Press, which includes local poets in its Shoreline Voices series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Upcoming &amp; Recent Poetry Events<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/work-sought-for-mlk-day-youth-poetry-and-essay-contest-deadline-october-30\/\">Work sought for MLK Day youth poetry and essay contest, deadline October 30<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Youth 6-18 are invited to submit poems inspired by MLK Jr. and the theme of justice.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/halloween-season-edition-spirits-in-the-air-potent-potable-poetry-oct-13-the-good-lion\/\">Halloween Season edition, \u201cSpirits in the Air: Potent Potable Poetry,\u201d Oct. 13, The Good Lion<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Ten invited poets will read their work, and the work of others, about libations, The Good Lion, 1212 State St., 4:30-5:30 Poetic Happy Hour, 5:30-6:30 pm, Poetry Reading.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/ekphrastic-poems-celebrating-the-work-of-patricia-chidlaw-september-23\/\">Ekphrastic poems celebrating the work of Patricia Chidlaw, September 23<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Santa Barbara poets respond to the paintings of Patricia Chidlaw at this book launch at Sullivan Goss.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/lets-chat-about-poetry-with-laure-anne-bosselaar-september-20\/\">Let\u2019s Chat About Poetry with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, September 20<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Join local poetry professor and esteemed author, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, for a reading of favorite poems. 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