The Wildling Museum in Solvang will host a poetry reading titled Encounters: Poetry Inspired by Nature on Jan. 21.
The reading will feature the work of Teresa McNeil McLean, Steve Braff, and Dorothy Jardin. McLean is a Santa Ynez artist, musician, and writer who pens poems that she often transitions into song lyrics. McLean has been the poetry teacher for Arts Outreach in elementary school classrooms in and around the Santa Ynez Valley since 1986.
Braff is co-founder of the Santa Ynez Valley Poetry Group, poetry chair of the Santa Ynez Valley Arts Association, founder and host of the Blue Whale Poetry Series at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History as well as the Wildling Museum Poetry Series in Solvang, and is a poetry instructor for the Jewish Federation of Santa Barbara.
The event is a prelude to an open mic poetry reading the museum will host on April 29. The museum is located at 1511 Mission Drive, Solvang. More info: (805) 688-1082.
