Montecito Poet Has Reading On Campus

Montecito poet Lois Klein will be reading from her book “A Soldier’s Daughter” from 4-5 p.m. Thursday, June 3, at Hieronymus Lounge inside Kerrwood Hall. She will be briefly preceded by several Westmont students from the Mayterm Poetry Workshop. The reading is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served and books will be available for sale and signing.

Klein earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Tufts University and a master’s in psychology from Antioch University. Her chapbook, “Naming Water,” was published in 1998. Her most recent book, “A Soldier’s Daughter,” was published by Turning Point Books in early 2008.

Klein’s poems have won an Excellence in Writing Award from the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and have appeared in numerous regional and national journals, including Lucid Stone, South Carolina Review, and Rivertalk. She has given readings throughout California and has been a featured presenter at the San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Poetry Festivals. Ms. Klein is on the faculty of the Santa Barbara Poetry Conference, hosts the monthly Santa Barbara Favorite Poems Project readings, is a fellow of the South Coast Writers Project, and leads two private writing groups for adults. She has taught for 12 years through the California Poets in the Schools program, where she tells the children she is hard-pressed to define exactly what poetry is, but figures if she keeps living the question, one day she will write herself into an answer.