Join us in welcoming Sara to the beautiful Wild Hearts Open Mic on Friday, November 15th – 7PM to 9PM at the Wild Heart Herb House located inside the Haskell Gardens at 777 Shawmut Avenue, New Bedford MA 02740.

Sara will give us a featured reading in the middle of our usual open mic session. She’ll also have copies of Wild Gardens available for sale.

In her inspiring and lyrical debut poetry collection, Wild Gardens, Sara Letourneau looks at our world and one’s life experiences with empathy and wide-open eyes. The book allows us to inhabit terrain that is physical—the shores of Cape Cod, the lava fields of Iceland, parks in Massachusetts and New York City—and emotional. Poems about grief, love, and mental health coexist with poems about travel, spirituality, and the natural world like flowers in a nursery. Wild Gardens shows us how to live with wonder, perceptiveness, and gratitude for the extraordinary and the everyday.

About The Author

Sara Letourneau’s debut poetry collection, Wild Gardens, is out now through Kelsay Books. She’s also a book editor and writing coach at Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services, and the cofounder and cohost of the Pour Me a Poem open mic in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Her poetry has won the 2023 Beals Prize for Poetry and the Blue Institute’s 2020 Words on Water contest. Her new and upcoming work can be found in Amethyst Review, The Arts Fuse, Gyroscope Review, Rituals, Remington Review, Nixes Mate Review, and Silver Birch Press, among others. Sara lives in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

Join us in welcoming Sara to the beautiful Wild Hearts Open Mic on Friday, November 15th – 7PM to 9PM at the Wild Heart Herb House located inside the Haskell Gardens at 777 Shawmut Avenue, New Bedford MA 02740.