The Blue Whale Reading Series
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Date & Time
Wed, Sep 11 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Address (map)
227 E. Arrellaga St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Venue (website)
Unity Church of Santa Barbara
The Blue Whale Reading Series on Wednesday, September 11 will feature Jace Turner and Catherine Abbey Hodges
Jace Ryan Turner is a librarian at the Santa Barbara Public Library. His poems have appeared in recent anthologies by Gunpowder Press. He is a passionate walker, avid reader, & friend to many poets!
Catherine Abbey Hodges is the author of In a Rind of Light (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2020); Instead of Sadness, selected by Dan Gerber for the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press; Raft of Days (Gunpowder Press, 2017); and the chapbooks A Spell for What Comes Next (Miramar Editions, 2018) and All the While (Finishing Line Press, 2006).
Her poems appear widely in venues including Narrative, The Southern Review, Tar River Poetry, Miramar, The American Journal of Poetry, Connotation Press, Cider Press Review, Atticus Review, SWWIM, Gyroscope Review, and Chicago Quarterly Review. They’ve been anthologized, featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Orison Anthology, and Best of the Net. Catherine serves as a staff reader for SWWIM and an advisory editor for Anacapa Review. With David Starkey, she is co-creator and -director of Canyon Wren Writing.
An award-winning teacher, Catherine taught English at Porterville College for 20 years before retiring in 2021. She writes, edits, teaches privately, and collaborates with musician and labyrinth-maker Rob Hodges in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada.
The reading is hosted by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Christine Kravetz.
There will be an open mic after the scheduled readers.