{"id":426,"date":"2026-04-12T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/?p=426"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:50:21","slug":"blue-whale-reading-jacob-herrera-spears-and-laura-mullen-may-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/blue-whale-reading-jacob-herrera-spears-and-laura-mullen-may-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Whale Reading: Jacob Herrera Spears and Laura Mullen, May 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blue-whale-flyer-5-13-262-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blue-whale-flyer-5-13-262-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blue-whale-flyer-5-13-262-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blue-whale-flyer-5-13-262-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blue-whale-flyer-5-13-262-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blue-whale-flyer-5-13-262.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Whale Reading Series, featuring poets Jacob Herrera Spears and Laura Mullen. Wednesday, May 13, 5:30 pm, Unity of SB Chapel, 227 E. Arrellaga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob Herrera Spears is a poet from Goleta, CA. He recently completed a BA in English at Westmont College, after transferring from Santa Barbara City College. His latest work has appeared or is forthcoming in&nbsp;<em>Anacapa Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Plume<\/em>,<em>Rattle<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Passages North<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Sh\u014d Poetry Journal<\/em>. This fall, Jacob is moving to Baltimore, where he will begin an MFA in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Mullen is the author of nine books\u2014her most recent collection,&nbsp;<em>EtC<\/em>, was published in 2023. Her translation of V\u00e9ronique Pittolo&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Hero<\/em>&nbsp;was published by Black Square Editions and her translation of St\u00e9phanie Chaillou\u2019s first book (<em>something happens<\/em>) was published by Lavender Ink \/&nbsp;Di\u00e1logos. She lives in Ventura, California.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Limited open mic to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Whale Reading Series, featuring poets Jacob Herrera Spears and Laura Mullen. Wednesday, May 13, 5:30 pm, Unity of SB Chapel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-whale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}