{"id":596,"date":"2026-07-10T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/?p=596"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:19:26","slug":"blue-whale-reading-stephanie-barbe-hammer-and-perie-longo-september-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/blue-whale-reading-stephanie-barbe-hammer-and-perie-longo-september-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Whale Reading: Stephanie Barb\u00e9 Hammer and Perie Longo, September 9"},"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\/08\/blue-whale-flyer-9-9-263-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/blue-whale-flyer-9-9-263-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/blue-whale-flyer-9-9-263-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/blue-whale-flyer-9-9-263-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/blue-whale-flyer-9-9-263-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/blue-whale-flyer-9-9-263.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next Blue Whale Reading will feature Stephanie Barb\u00e9 Hammer and Perie Longo on Wednesday, September 9 at 5:30 pm at Unity of Santa Barbara Chapel, 227 E. Arrellaga St., Santa Barbara. There will be a limited open mic after the featured readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephanie Barb\u00e9 Hammer is a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks:\u00a0<em>Sex with Buildings\u00a0<\/em>(Dancing Girl Press), and\u00a0<em>City Slicker\u00a0<\/em>(Bamboo Dart Press) as well as the full-length collection\u00a0<em>How Formal?\u00a0<\/em>(Spout Hill Press). She is also a fiction writer, and her most recent novel\u00a0<em>Journey to Merveilleux City<\/em>\u00a0(Picture Show Press) features an intrepid poet determined to find her voice. A professor emerita and distinguished teacher in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, Stephanie now lives in Santa Barbara with her husband, writer and political organizer Larry Behrendt.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perie Longo,\u00a0Poet Laureate\u00a0<em>emerita<\/em>\u00a0of Santa Barbara, California (2007-2009), has published five books of poetry:\u00a0<em>Milking The Earth (1986), The Privacy Of Wind (1987), With Nothing Behind But Sky: a journey through grief (2006), Baggage Claim (2014) and\u00a0<\/em>chapbook<em>\u00a0A Mosaic of Poetry for Kids (2013).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Her work has appeared in numerous journals including\u00a0<em>Atlanta Review, Connecticut Review, International Poetry Review, Nimrod, Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Salt and Solo<\/em>\u00a0as well as in recent anthologies:\u00a0<em>The Nature of Our Times ((2025), When a Woman Tells the Truth: by Woman Over 80 (2024) and Women in a Golden State (2025).\u00a0<\/em>She has taught poetry for the Santa Barbara Writers Conference since 1984, California-Poets-in-the-Schools (1985-2016) and privately. As a psychotherapist, she integrates poetry writing for healing. In 2025 she was awarded the Inaugural Literary Champion for Santa Barbara County.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Blue Whale Reading Series is hosted by Christine Kravetz and Christopher Buckley. A donation of $5 is requested to help pay for the venue rental. Please bring cash to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Whale Reading Series, featuring poets Stephanie Barb\u00e9 Hammer and Perie Longo. 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