Santa Barbara Poetry Series Reading with David Oliveira and Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Santa Barbara Public Library and Santa Barbara Poetry Series present a reading by David Oliveira, SB’s millennium Poet Laureate (1999-2000), and Laure-Anne Bosselaar, SB’s eighth Poet Laureate (2019-2021).

David Oliveira is a native of Hanford in California’s San Joaquin Valley. For many years, he was publisher of Mille Grazie Press in Santa Barbara, California, and was a founding editor of Solo, an award winning national journal of poetry. He founded the still-running Santa Barbara Poetry Series, and in 1999, was named Santa Barbara’s millennium poet laureate. He has published five poetry collections, most recently Still Life with Coffee (Brandenburg Press, 2022). He has also co-edited four anthologies, including California Poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present (Heyday Books, 2004). He lives and writes on the banks of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is a native of Belgium. Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureate from 2019-2021, Bosselaar has also co-directed the Aspen Writer’s Conference, and taught at Emerson College, Sarah Larwrence College, UCSB College of Creative Studies, and numerous conferences. She has published five poetry collections, most recently Lately: New & Selected Poems (Sungold Press, 2024). She has co-edited or edited five anthologies, most recently While You Wait (Gunpowder Press, 2021), a book that was adapted to a Covid-safe website. Bosselaar is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the James Dickey Poetry Prize.

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