Barry Spacks

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  Barry Spacks was named poet laureate of the city of Santa Barbara in April 2005.He teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara and has published stories, two novels, and nine poetry collections.

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  Barry Spacks, the first Santa Barbara poet laureate, and newly named Poet Laureate Perie Longo will read selections from their works at the Book Den and neighboring Artamo Gallery.

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  Barry Spacks
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  Barry SpacksBarry Spacks, a long time professor of literature and creative writing at M.I.T. and U.C. Santa Barbara, has published stories, two novels, and nine poetry collections, including Spacks Street: New and Selected Poems from Johns Hopkins, Regarding Women, winner of the Cherry Grove Collections Prize, and The Hope of the Air from Michigan State University Press.Maxine Hong Kingston writes of him: "I enjoy reading Barry Spacks' poetry for his attention to real things, real people, real life.
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  Spacks is a senior student of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, with whom he studied for six years.

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  Spacks, who served a two-year term as the city's first poet laureate, does not hold back praise when speaking of Longo."Perie is just so great; she is the perfect person for the job," he said."She's so grown up, and so funny, and so straightforward.
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  Spacks, who teaches at UCSB's College of Creative Studies and is the author of numerous books of poetry, has been plenty busy himself as poet laureate.He has written poems for special occasions on request, for events ranging from a clinic fundraiser to an official tree planting.He has also done a great deal to promote April as National Poetry Month, a tradition that has grown steadily under his influence, and he has helped start a series of readings for senior centers, as well as a monthly open mike reading.
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  In addition, Snow and Spacks worked together on the Podcasting Poets Project, which recorded local poets reading their own poems and sold the CDs to raise money for National Poetry Month activities.
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  Spacks and Longo have been working together closely in the transition between their tenures."Barry has done such a phenomenal job," Longo said."I'm honored to follow in his footsteps."Both Spacks and Longo agree Santa Barbara is rich in poets and poetry.Spacks referred to the city as "Poetry Town," and Longo concurred, "We are so fortunate in Santa Barbara to have such a talented pool of poets."In fact, as poet laureate, Longo hopes to create an anthology of poems about Santa Barbara written by Santa Barbara poets.
  
  Otherwise, she looks forward to doing more of what she has already been doing, and to reaching new audiences, particularly more high school students."Kids don't feel like they are being heard," she said."The community needs to get behind them.It may sound like a bold statement to say that poetry can contribute to addressing gang violence, but I believe that it can."She added, "Poetry has become very popular now.

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  Longo replaces Barry Spacks, the city's first Poet Laureate, who was in that role for two years.Spacks is also a visiting professor at UCSB's College of Creative Studies.At the city council meeting yesterday, Longo read a poem she wrote for last month's "Poetry Out Loud" contest for high schoolers, in which they learn and memorize famous poems and then have competitions.

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  Additionally, College of Creative Studies Literature professor Barry Spacks is the Santa Barbara Poet Laureate.

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  Sample Poems by Barry SpacksCherry Grove Collections: The Art of Lyric
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  Sample Poems by Barry Spacks

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