***Poet Laureate Blog 1. This post was previously published in the Santa Barbara Independent By Melinda Palacio, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate When I told my dental hygienist that I was going to be Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureate, she wasn’t sure what that meant. The instruments in my mouth didn’t help either. She was confused behind […]
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2010 Speaker: Santa Barbara City College Chicano Studies 2010 Featured Poet Santa Barbara Poetry Series: along with Phil Taggart and Marsha de la O. 2010 Featured Poet: Creative Community Channel: Poetry inspired by the Mission. 2011 Panelist: UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center 2011 Poet: Carnegie Museum, Oxnard. Arcade Poetry Series. 2011 Poet: Sullivan Goss: An […]
In Paterson, I enjoyed my fifteen (or more) minutes of fame. I’m still feeling the glow of being including in the finalists for the Paterson Poetry Prize. I had the pleasure of meeting three poets with varying and powerful styles, including our winner, 5th Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco of Beyoncé and Anderson Cooper fame, and […]