BARRY SPACKS
First Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, Californa.
Nine poetry collections (most extensive: SPACKS STREET:
NEW & SELECTED POEMS, from Johns Hopkins,
1982, winner of The Commonwealth Club of California's Poetry Medal; most recent:
REGARDING WOMEN, WordTech Communications, winner of the Cherry Grove Collections
Prize, and THE HOPE OF THE AIR, Michigan State University Press, both 2004).
N.E.A librettist grantee; many poetry readings; poems in 18 anthologies and
a multitude of journals, print and cyber; two novels, stories, essays, reviews.
For poems and novels: St. Botolph's Arts Award, Boston.
Singer-songwriter, actor; Literature professor, M.I.T. (1960-1981); persistently
Visiting Professor, U.C. Santa Barbara (Distinguished Professor in Humanities
& Fine Arts, 1991). Senior Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism) student of H.E.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.
Two CDs , A Private Reading, from WC Studios, contains 42 poems (plus
chat) from 50 years of work and Selected Poems from Regarding Women.
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