Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers’ Series with Poet Emma Trelles

Emma Trelles will share from her most recent works and answer questions from attendees. Her poetry has been celebrated as “…luxurious and scrumptious, socially relevant, with oomph and sizzle.” Trelles is the daughter of Cuban immigrants and author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize; her current manuscript, Courage and the Clock, was a finalist for the 2026 Louise Bogan Award for poetry & shortlisted for the 2025 Donald Hall Prize. She is the 9th Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California, and the recipient of an Established Artist Fellow…

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