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“Though the drought continues through the winter, there is no drought of winter poetry,” writes organizer Paul Willis. The public is warmly invited to attend the\u00a0winter reading of the\u00a0Santa\u00a0Barbara\u00a0Poetry\u00a0Series<\/a>\u00a0at 7 p.m. on Saturday, February 21 at the Museum of Contemporary Art\u00a0Santa\u00a0Barbara<\/a>\u00a0(653 Paseo Nuevo, Upper Arts Terrace).<\/p>\n

The three presenting poets are\u00a0Katie Shara,\u00a0Jackson Wheeler and\u00a0Zack Rogow.<\/p>\n

Younger poet\u00a0Katie Shara\u00a0<\/i>was born and raised in Santa Barbara and is a recent graduate of Westmont College.\u00a0 She became interested in poetry while on a semester abroad in Orvieto, Italy.\u00a0 She is currently working at a local preschool\u2014teaching two-year-olds, writing curriculum, and settling into post-grad life.<\/p>\n

Local poet and social worker\u00a0Jackson Wheeler\u00a0<\/i>was born and raised\u00a0on the eastern slopes of the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.\u00a0 He is the author of two collections of poetry,\u00a0Swimming Past Iceland\u00a0<\/i>(Millie Grazie Press, 1993) and\u00a0A Near Country\u00a0<\/i>(SOLO Press, 1999), and also of a forthcoming collection,\u00a0Was I Asleep: Poems 1980-2014. \u00a0<\/i>Since 1989, he has hosted the Arcade Poetry Series, now part of the cultural offerings of the Oxnard Carnegie Art Museum.<\/p>\n

Visiting poet\u00a0Zack Rogow\u00a0was born and raised in New York City and now lives in San Francisco.\u00a0His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines, from\u00a0American Poetry Review\u00a0<\/i>to\u00a0Zyzzyva<\/i>, and\u00a0he\u00a0is the author, editor, or translator of nineteen books or plays, including his seventh book of poems,\u00a0My Mother and the Ceiling Dancers (<\/i>Kattywompus Press, 2012), and an\u00a0anthology of U.S. poetry,\u00a0The Face of Poetry\u00a0<\/i>(University of California Press, 2005).\u00a0 Currently he teaches in the low-residency MFA at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.<\/p>\n

The event is supported by\u00a0Poets\u00a0& Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.\u00a0<\/span>Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Leslie Dinaberg<\/span><\/p>\n

Originally published in Santa Barbara Seasons Magazine<\/em><\/a> on February 13, 2015.<\/p>\n

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