David Starkey

Poetry

Working toward a publishable draft of an original poem

Monday
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.

David Starkey served as Santa Barbara's 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. He's Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College and the Publisher and Co-editor of Gunpowder Press. Over the past thirty years, he's published 11 full-length collections of poetry with small presses and more than 500 poems in literary journals. His novel Poor Ghost was released March 2024.