Professor Barry Spacks

What Breathes Us Professor Barry Spacks

Celebrating the first 10 years of Santa Barbara's Poet Laureate program, this book collects poems by the first six poet laureates. These poems reflect a community with a commitment to the arts, including literary arts. Barry Spacks, Perie Longo, David Starkey, Paul J. Willis, Chryss Yost, and Sojourner Kincaid Rolle. Preface by Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneinder, with a coda to honor poet David Oliveira. The book includes 6-12 poems by each poet with a biographical note by editor (and poet laureate) David Starkey.