Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This episode features poet and Acadia National Park trail crew member and Poet Laureate, Christian Barter. Christian reads his poems "McVie," "Acadia," "To Autumn," "Reading Myself," and "Errand."
Christian Barter’s fourth book of poetry, The Ends, is published by Littoral Books. He has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Maine Literary Award for Poetry, the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions, and he was the Poet Laureate of Acadia National Park. For over thirty years he has worked for the Acadia trail crew as a stone worker, rigger, arborist and supervisor.
Learn more at www.christianbarterpoetry.org.