{"id":2,"date":"2025-11-02T20:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:37:36","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\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/carlos-andres-gomez-brent-ameneyro-reading-sbpl-august-19\/\">Carlos Andr\u00e9s Gomez &amp; Brent Ameneyro reading, SBPL, August 19<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">A reading celebrating the winner of the 2026 Alta CA Chapbook Prize and the winner of the 2025 National Indie Excellence Juror Choice Award.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/the-poetry-club-goleta-valley-library-august-16\/\">The Poetry Club, Goleta Valley Library, August 16<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">A monthly event: read a favorite poem or one of your own, or simply enjoy the voices of others. Sunday, Aug. 16, 2-3 pm.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/poetry-zone-open-mic-august-13\/\">Poetry Zone Open Mic, August 13<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Bjorn Birnir hosts an open mic at the Poetry Zone on Thursday, Aug 13, 4-6 pm at the former Staples, 401 State St., Santa Barbara.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/lowstate-writing-salon-august-11\/\">Lowstate Writing Salon, August 11<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Writing community w\/ big focus on play &#038; sparking something weird. We\u2019re about word games &#038; praise kinks. Tues., Aug. 11, 7pm, at Blue Owl.<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry Happens Here 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. Upcoming &amp; Recent Poetry Events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":123,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}