{"id":430,"date":"2026-04-18T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/?p=430"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:56:02","slug":"parallel-stories-memory-rehearsal-eleni-sikelianos-sbma-may-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/parallel-stories-memory-rehearsal-eleni-sikelianos-sbma-may-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallel Stories \u2013 Memory Rehearsal: Eleni Sikelianos, SBMA, May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eleni-memory-rehearsal-comp-slide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eleni-memory-rehearsal-comp-slide.jpg 850w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eleni-memory-rehearsal-comp-slide-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eleni-memory-rehearsal-comp-slide-768x452.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To mark the closing of Elliott Hundley\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbma.net\/exhibitions\/achilles-tomb-elliott-hundley-and-antiquity-sbma\"><em>By Achilles\u2019 Tomb<\/em><\/a>, celebrated author Eleni Sikelianos will read from her latest book, a genre-busting encounter between a poet and her ancestral past documenting a startling intersection of queer history, ancient theater, utopian visions, and modern poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Author&nbsp;<\/strong><br>Born in Santa Barbara to a family of tree workers, bohemians, poets, ne&#8217;er-do-wells, activists, and visionaries, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, collaborator, and &#8220;master of mixing genres.&#8221; Among many honors, she has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Fulbright Artists fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in nonfiction. She grew up mostly in Isla Vista, California, and now lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches at Brown University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-sponsored by the Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies, UCSB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book signing to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.sbma.net\/orders\/576\/tickets?cdEventIds=69b45727ba6cd34af2d1c36f&amp;date=2026-05-21T17:00:00-07:00&amp;eventId=69b45727ba6cd34af2d1c36f\">Ticketed event<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, May 21, 5-6:30 pm, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleni Sikelianos will read from her latest genre-busting book at the SB Museum of Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-santa-barbara-museum-of-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}