{"id":685,"date":"2026-08-22T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/?p=685"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:57:23","slug":"blue-whale-reading-bonnie-bolling-and-laure-anne-bosselaar-nov-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/blue-whale-reading-bonnie-bolling-and-laure-anne-bosselaar-nov-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Whale Reading: Bonnie Bolling and Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Nov. 11"},"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\/10\/blue-whale-flyer-11-11-262-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blue-whale-flyer-11-11-262-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blue-whale-flyer-11-11-262-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blue-whale-flyer-11-11-262-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blue-whale-flyer-11-11-262-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blue-whale-flyer-11-11-262.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 Bonnie Bolling and Laure-Anne Bosselaar on Wednesday, November 11 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\">Bonnie Bolling\u2019s first collection of poetry,&nbsp;<em>In the Kingdom of the<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Sons<\/em>, won the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry, and her&nbsp;second,&nbsp;<em>The Red Hijab<\/em>, won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. She was&nbsp;awarded fellowships by Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, Prague&nbsp;Summer Writers and the University of California, Riverside, where&nbsp;she received an MFA. Her play,&nbsp;<em>The Red Hijab<\/em>, was produced at UCR&nbsp;by Playworks. Bonnie is editor-in-chief of&nbsp;<em>Verdad<\/em>&nbsp;and she currently lives in southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and has been awarded fellowships and residencies by&nbsp;the Breadloaf Writers\u2019 Conference,&nbsp;Hamilton College, and the Vermont Studio Center. She was&nbsp;the McEver Chair for Visiting Writers at Georgia Tech University, and&nbsp;taught at Emerson College, Sarah Lawrence College and University of California, Santa Barbara. She served as the Santa Barbara Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2021.<\/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 Bonnie Bolling and Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Wednesday, Nov. 11, 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-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-whale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}