Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toenails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.

Dylan Thomas

Poet Teachers

There are currently five Poet-Teachers for the Santa Barbara Poets in the Schools Program. Click on the names below to meet each of them, and read samples of their work.

 

Lois Klein

Christine Kravetz

Perie Longo

Beth Taylor-Schott

David Taylor-Schott