Melinda Palacio is the City of Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureate. Author of the novel Ocotillo Dreams, her first poetry collection, How Fire Is a Story, Waiting, was a finalist the Paterson Prize and received First Prize in Poetry at the 2013 International Latino Book Awards. In 2015, her work was featured on the Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day Program. Her latest collection is Bird Forgiveness. She writes a column for the Santa Barbara Independent. 

Schedule

9:00 am to 10:00 am

State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room

Appetizers for the Poetry Buffet

with Anne Babson, Stacey Balkun, Gina Ferrara, Kelly Harris-DeBerry, Julie Kane, Daniel W.K. Lee, Monica Mankin, Benjamin Morris, Geoff Munsterman, Kay Murphy, Biljana D. Obradović, Melinda Palacio, Jonathan Penton, Valentine Pierce, Mona Lisa Saloy, and Sandra Sarr

3:15 pm to 4:00 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

The Poetry Buffet: An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry