Hosted by former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate David Starkey, the library's semi-annual poetry event showcases local poets, both adults and those under eighteen.

Our third event will begin with Ruby Schow from Mountain View Elementary School, followed by our featured poets, Gabriella Klein and Laure-Anne Bosselaar.

Gabriella Klein is a poet, editor, grant writer, fiduciary, wife and mother. Her collection of poems, Land Sparing (Nightboat Books) won the Nightboat Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award. Gabriella did her undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University and received her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, and of Small Gods of Grief, which won the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry. In 2007, Ausable Press published her third poetry collection A New Hunger which the American Library Association selected as Notable Book for 2008. She is also an anthologist, translator, editor and consultant.