Ricardo Ybarra Chosen as Malibu’s First Poet Laureate

In an interview, Ybarra said his involvement with poetry started as a “total fluke.” A couple of years after moving to Paradise Cove from Santa Cruz in 1981, he was working as a tile setter while attending classes at Cal State Northridge to get his teaching credentials. When required to take an elective, he chose a poetry workshop by default. 

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