Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Karen Klein, Linda Flaherty Haltmaier, Sara Letourneau

The NEPC is delighted to return to Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge. This event, the second of two for 2025, is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Registration is requested: https://www.massaudubon.org/programs/magazine-beach/97530-nature-poetry-readings. Please join us!

Karen Klein began a haiku/senryu writing practice, published in Modern Haiku & Frogpond,  then published contemporary lyric poems in journals including Constellations, Ibbetson Street, and Wilderness House Literary Review. She founded the poetry/dance collective teXtmoVes, performing in Greater Boston and Cape Cod, 2016- 2023. Her first full-length poetry book is This Close (Ibbetson Street Press, 2022) and her first chapbook, Embodied (Finishing Line Press, 2025). She is the co-author, with linocut artist Scott Ponemone, of Circularity (BookArt, 2025).

She studied  contemporary dance with Martha Graham in NYC, Jose Limon Company in CT. Moving to the Boston area, performed with Across the Ages Dance for 8 seasons and with Prometheus Elders, 2005-2019. She retired as Associate Professor Emerita after 37 years in the English and American Literature Department, and is working on a third manuscript, 1324 Third Avenue South about growing up in Fargo, North Dakota from 1936-1954.

Linda Flaherty Haltmaier is the award-winning author of four books of poetry and the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Andover, MA. Her latest collection, Shadows Set to Burn, is the winner of the 2024 International Book Award for Narrative Poetry. Her debut collection, Rolling up the Sky, claimed the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize––and her follow-up, To the Left of the Sun, won the American Book Fest Award for Poetry. Additional accolades include winning the Robert Frost Poetry Prize, The JuxtaProse Poetry Prize, and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Competition––and Finalist honors for the Princemere Poetry Prize, the New Millennium Award for Poetry, the Atlanta Review Poetry Competition and more. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Linda is a graduate of Harvard and lives on Boston’s North Shore with her husband and daughter.

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.