Paul Willis

Poetry

Working toward a publishable draft of an original poem

Friday
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.

Paul Willis, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate 2011-2013 is an emeritus professor of English at Westmont College. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and he's been featured on Verse Daily and The Writer's Almanac and nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize. His YA Elizabethan time-travel novel, All in a Garden Green, was released in 2020, and he's published an eco-fantasy quartet, 2 collections of creative nonfiction, and 7 collections of poetry.