Lois Klein
website: http://www.sbpoetteachers.com/Poet_Teachers/Lois_Klein/index.html

Lois Klein holds a BA in Education and English Literature from Tufts University and an MA in Psychology from Antioch University. Her chapbook Naming Water was published in 1998. Her newly completed manuscript, A Soldier’s Daughter, is awaiting publication.

Lois’ poems have won an “Excellence in Writing” award from the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and have been printed in numerous regional and national journals. She has given readings throughout Southern and Central California, and has been a featured presenter at the San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Poetry Festivals.

She directs the poetry component of the annual Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival and organizes the monthly Santa Barbara Favorite Poems Project. She is also a fellow of the South Coast Writers Project.

Lois has been teaching through the California Poets in the Schools program for seven years.

At Our Last Poetry Session

I have thought of your faces
eyes bright with images
hands waving ideas on their fingertips.
I have thought of your frowns of concentration
your smiles of discovery
your journeys pressed onto paper.
I have thought of all the stories
wrapped inside you
each one a star in an endless galaxy.
I have wanted you to shine like that.
I ask that you always will.

~Lois Klein

 

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