Join us at Book Love for an evening featuring The Good Harbor Poets - a writing collective from across Massachusetts. Four of their members have new books coming out within a year of each other, and they are reading throughout the state to celebrate those works and bring them to wider audiences. The poets include K.T. Landon (from Arlington, her debut collection Abide was chosen by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the Richard Snyder Prize, Ashland Poetry Press, 2026), Kali Lightfoot (from Salem, her second collection is Big Band Night at the Good Life Bar, Moon Pie Press, 2025), Rebecca Hart Olander (from Florence, her second collection is Singing from the Deep End, CavanKerry Press, 2026), and Carla Panciera (from Rowley, her latest collection is One Trail of Longing, Another of String, Bordighera, 2025). 

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K. T. Landon’s first full-length collection, Abide, was selected by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2025 Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize and will be published by Ashland Poetry Press in 2026. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Sun, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Narrative, and Best New Poets, among others. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and she is a reader for Lily Poetry Review. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Kali Lightfoot is a queer poet living in Salem, MA. She worked as a gym teacher, wilderness ranger, manager at Road Scholar, and Director of the National Resource Center for Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes before retiring and earning an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies and was nominated for Pushcart prizes by Lavender Review and Poetry South and for Best of the Net by Star 82 Review. Her books include Pelted by Flowers (CavanKerry, 2021), named a MA Center for the Book “Must Read,” and Big Band Night at the Good Life Bar (Moon Pie, 2025).

Rebecca Hart Olander is a Women's National Book Association Poetry Award winner and the author of three poetry collections: Dressing the Wounds (a dancing girl press chapbook, 2019), Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021), a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, and Singing from theDeepEnd (CavanKerry Press, 2026). She has taught writing widely, most recently as the James Merrill Visiting Poet at Amherst College, and she works with graduate student poets at Wilkes University. She is the editor/director of Perugia Press. Rebecca grew up between Gloucester and Boston and lives in western Massachusetts.

Carla Panciera’s short story collection, Bewildered, received AWP’s Grace Paley Award and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Her poetry collections include Cider Press Award Winner, One of the Cimalores, Bordighera Press Award Winner, No Day, No Dusk, No Love and One Trail of Longing, Another of String (Bordighera, 2025). She was the James E. Kilgore scholar in Nonfiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant in Creative Nonfiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her book Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir, was released in 2023 by Loom Press.