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The Santa Barbara Public Library and Santa Barbara Poetry Series present a reading by David Oliveira, SB\u2019s millennium Poet Laureate (1999-2000), and Laure-Anne Bosselaar, SB\u2019s eighth Poet Laureate (2019-2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Oliveira<\/strong> is a native of Hanford in California\u2019s San Joaquin Valley. For many years, he was publisher of Mille Grazie Press in Santa Barbara, California, and was a founding editor of Solo<\/em>, an award winning national journal of poetry. He founded the still-running Santa Barbara Poetry Series, and in 1999, was named Santa Barbara\u2019s millennium Poet Laureate. He has published five poetry collections, most recently Still Life with Coffee<\/em> (Brandenburg Press, 2022). He has also co-edited four anthologies, including California Poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present <\/em>(Heyday Books, 2004). He lives and writes on the banks of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laure-Anne Bosselaar<\/strong>\u2014who served as Santa Barbara\u2019s Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2021\u2014is the author of six books of poetry. Her latest, entitled Lately, <\/em>came out from Sungold Press. <\/strong>Her poems have appeared in The Washington Post, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Vox Populi, Askew, <\/em>and the Anacapa Review. <\/em> Garrison Keillor read four of her poems on NPR\u2019s The Writers\u2019 Almanac, <\/em>and her poems have been widely anthologized. <\/em>She is herself the editor of five anthologies,including While You Wait <\/em>which showcases many Central Coast’s poets. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, and was a Writer in Residence <\/em>at The Vermont Studio Center as well as at Hamilton College.  She was the McEver Chair for Visiting Writers<\/em> at Georgia Tech University. She taught poetry at Emerson College, in the Creative Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College, and at the College of Creative Studies at UCSB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, March 27, 5:30-6:30 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santa Barbara Public Library, Fireplace Room, 40 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free and open to the public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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