We connected from our homes for this virtual interview.  David lives in Santa Barbara, California, and I am in the countryside outside Corvallis, Oregon. For those who have difficulty hearing the video or audio podcast, you can download a transcript below. You may also select the closed captioning (CC) option on the video.

About This Podcast

David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. He is Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College and the Publisher and Co-editor o Gunpowder Press.

Over the past thirty years, he has published eleven full-length collections of poetry with small presses and more than 500 poems in literary journals such as American Scholar, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner and Southern Review.

As an educator, he has written and edited a number of books, most recently Hello, Writer and Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (4th edition), both published by Bedford/St. Martin’s in 2021. David is also a founding editor of the California Review of Books and the host of Santa Barbara’s Creative Community.

You can learn more about David and his books on his website: https://davidstarkey.net/

He also hangs out on Facebook, Twitter,  Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, BookBub, and Pinterest. She also has a special group on Facebook for her fans called Reality Optional.