{"id":705,"date":"2026-09-15T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/?p=705"},"modified":"2026-11-10T03:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T03:38:54","slug":"book-release-readings-chiavelli-davis-walker-dec-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/book-release-readings-chiavelli-davis-walker-dec-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Release Readings&#8211;Chiavelli, Davis, Walker, Dec. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/chiavelli-david-walker-promos-smaller1-512x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/chiavelli-david-walker-promos-smaller1-512x1024.jpg 512w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/chiavelli-david-walker-promos-smaller1-150x300.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/chiavelli-david-walker-promos-smaller1-768x1536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/chiavelli-david-walker-promos-smaller1-1024x2048.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/chiavelli-david-walker-promos-smaller1-scaled.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A three book release reading party featuring Susan Chiavelli, Frances Davis, and Isabelle Walker at Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E Valley Rd.,&nbsp;Suite 51, Montecito, December 5th, 3 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event is free; books will be available for purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come celebrate <em>Close at Hand: a conversation in verse<\/em> (Sungold Editions) by Susan Chiavelli &amp; Frances Davis; <em>Alas\u2026a memoir-in-verse<\/em> (Finishing Line Press) by Susan Chiavelli; and <em>Something Good in All That Darkness<\/em> (Finishing Line Press) by Isabelle Walker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Susan Chiavelli\u2019s award winning prose and poetry have appeared in&nbsp;<em>The Los Angeles Review, SALT, Miramar, San Pedro River Review, The Packinghouse Review, Shoreline Voices&nbsp;<\/em>anthologies and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart nominee and the recipient of the&nbsp;<em>Chattahoochee Review\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;Lamar York Nonfiction Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journalist and poet Frances Davis is the author of the historical novel&nbsp;<em>Red Summer<\/em>&nbsp;(2025). Her poetry and prose have appeared in&nbsp;<em>Reed Magazine<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Calyx<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>SALT<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Passager<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Chattahoochee Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Anacapa Review<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Askew<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Hopper<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>New Verse News<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isabelle Walker lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she teaches and writes for magazines and newspapers. Her poems have appeared in <em>December, The Maine Review, The Santa Barbara Literary Journal, The Sierra Nevada Review<\/em>, <em>Seven Hills Review, Salt,<\/em> among others<em>.<\/em> She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and Poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Chiavelli, Frances Davis, and Isabelle Walker read from new works at Tecolote Books, Dec. 5, 3 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}