David Starkey

David Starkey: David Starkey is the Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California, and Director of the Creative Writing program at Santa Barbara City College. Among his poetry collections are "Starkey's Book of States" (Boson Books, 2007), "Adventures of the Minor Poet" (Artamo Press, 2007), "Ways of Being Dead: New and Selected Poems" (Artamo, 2006), "David Starkey's Greatest Hits" (Pudding House, 2002) and "Fear of Everything, " winner of Palanquin Press's Spring 2000 chapbook contest.