Santa Barbara Public Library, 3-4:30 p.m. April 12: Poetry in Parks, featuring California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick. Melinda Palacio and State Parks host an afternoon of poetry, music by Mark Zolezzi, ...

The Santa Barbara City Council is getting ready to appoint a new Poet Laureate. George Yatchisin ... the Santa Barbara Independent, the California Review of Books, and KCET’s Food Blog.

Devreaux Baker, Mendocino County’s first poet laureate She has also taught poetry to young students through the California ...

Emma Trelles is the 9th Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara (2021-23) and a 2023 recipient of an Established Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council. In August 2022, she was named one of 22 Poet ...

APTOS — Many municipalities have a poet laureate to serve as ambassadors of all things poetic while also reading poems at events and educating the public about this form of artistic expression.

Teresa Kuskey The Association for Women in Communications – Santa Barbara (AWC-SB) will honor five local creatives who are ...

Naturally, Santa Cruz County — being the creative enclave that it is — has had a poet laureate since 2010, but it does not limit this position to just adult poets. A youth poet laureate is ...