NEPC and Beehive Poetry: Sara Letourneau and Owen Lewis

The New England Poetry Club continues our partnership with the Beehive Poetry Group, in a reading presented by Jean Flanagan, the Arlington, Massachusetts Poet Laureate. This month’s reading features Sara Letourneau and Owen Lewis, with introductions by Steve Rapp.

The event is free and open to the public. The Robbins Library is an accessible venue.

Open-mic reading slots are on a first-come, first-served basis and open 15 minutes before the start time. Sign up to read, or attend and enjoy a night of poetry!

Sara Letourneau is the author of Wild Gardens (Kelsay Books, 2024); a book editor and writing coach at Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services; the cofounder and cohost of the Pour Me a Poem open mic in Mansfield, Massachusetts; and the co-editor of the Pour Me a Poem anthology. Her poetry has won the 2023 Beals Prize for Poetry and the Blue Institute’s 2020 Words on Water contest. Her latest work can be found in The Arts Fuse, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, The Ekphrastic Review, Nixes Mate Review, Silver Birch Press, The Somerville Times, The Table Review, Third Wednesday Magazine, and Wild Greens. Sara lives in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

Owen Lewis is the author of four collections of poetry and three chapbooks, most recently A Prayer of Six Wings. His prior book, Field Light, was a “Must Read” selection in the 2021 Mass Book Awards. Honors include the 2024 E.E. Cummings Prize from the New England Poetry Club, the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize, the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry, the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the NEPC Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. He is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University and teaches Narrative Medicine.