Poetry, Interrupted

A poetry reading by Paul Willis and Diana Raab originally planned for the day of the Tea Fire has been rescheduled for Saturday, February 28, at 8 p.m. in the Fe Bland Auditorium at Santa Barbara City College. The event is free and open to the public and will include a book sale and signing by the authors.

Willis, a professor in Westmont’s English department for over 20 years, is an accomplished novelist and poet with work in journals such as “Poetry,” “Ascent,” “Books & Culture” and “Image.” His most recent collection of poetry, “Visiting Home,” was published by Pecan Grove Press in 2008.

Raab is a memoirist, essayist and poet and teaches in the UCLA Writers Program and the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Her 2007 memoir, “Regina’s Closet: Finding My Grandmother’s Secret Journal,” won the National Indie Excellence Award for Memoir. She is the editor of a forthcoming anthology, “Writers and Their Notebooks” (USC Press, 2009), a collection of essays by well-known writers who journal, including Sue Grafton, Kim Stafford, Dorianne Laux and others.

For more information about the event, please contact the organizer, David Starkey, at (805) 965-0581, extension 2345, or at starkey@sbcc.edu.