Barry Spacks

Barry Spacks has had poems published in every conceivable journal over the many years since the French & Indian Wars; also stories, two novels, etc. and nine poetry collections from such publishers as Harper's, Doubleday, U. of Georgia series, Godine, Michigan State University Press, and Johns Hopkins (Spacks Street: New & Selected Poems, winner of the Commonwealth Club of California's Poetry Medal). He's also put in multi-years of teaching, at M.I.T. & U.C. Santa Barbara mainly; shoe size 11B. He has three CDs out, A Private Reading -- a selection of 42 poems (plus chat) from 50 years of work -- a reading from his 2004 collection, Regarding Women, and one from his forthcoming What Breathes Us. In April 2005 he was invested (Ta-TAH) as the first official Poet Laureate of the gorgeous seaside city of Santa Barbara, California. Maxine Hong Kingston says of work: “I enjoy reading Barry Spacks’ poetry for his attention to real things, real people, real life. He finds ways to know everything—the earth, the air—as miraculous, as beautiful, as playful.”
 

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