Out of the Ground: Poems Inspired by Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Part of the Shoreline Voices series, showcasing poets from California’s Central Coast, Out of the Ground is inspired by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the flora of our region.

Out of the Ground includes poems by more than forty poets from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, and Ventura counties, including Carmen Alexander, Lori Anaya, Sarah Blakely, Gudrun Bortman, Sally Anderson Boström, M. L. Brown, Christopher Buckley, Carolyn Chilton Casas, Clayton Clark, Fran Davis, Marsha de la O, Kurt Duran, Ana Ellickson, Kimbrough Ernest, Mary Freericks, Cie Gumucio, Hannah Huff, Kristin Kane, Peggy Kelly, Isabelle Kim-Sherman, Gabriella Klein, Perie Longo, Jasmine Marshall Armstrong, Juliane McAdam, Anita McLaughlin, Anne Neubauer, Enid Osborn, Melinda Palacio, Scot Pipkin, Susan Shields, George HS Singer, David Starkey, Daniel Thomas, Emma Trelles, Jace Ryan Turner, Isabelle Walker, Joseph Warren, Norma Wightman, Paul Willis, George Yatchisin, and Chryss Yost.