Chryss Yost

Poetry

Working toward a publishable draft of an original poem

Tuesday and Thursday
9:00 – 11:30 AM
RM 1-240

Laure-Anne Bosselaar will lead this workshop Tuesday and Thursday. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, fellow Santa Barbara Poet Laureates, David Starkey, Chryss Yost, and Paul Willis will be guest workshop leaders. This should make for an extra-amazing 5-day poetry workshop.

Chryss Yost is a Santa Barbara Poet Laureate who served from 2013-2015. She was awarded the 2013 Patricia Dobler Poetry Prize and other honors, including Pushcart Prize nominations. She's co-editor of Gunpowder Press. Her collection Mouth & Fruit was published 2014, and her poems have been included in the most popular poetry textbooks in the country and widely anthologized elsewhere. She's a founding faculty member of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference's Poetry Conference.