Poetry Medicine for the Soul

Sometimes you've got to wait 'till it comes: a reading with Kristen Lindquist

Episode Summary

Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. In this episode, Kristen Lindquist reads three of her haibun (haiku-prose hybrid) poems: "Strangers on a Plane," "Natural History" and "The Way In."

Episode Notes

Kristen Lindquist attended Middlebury College in Vermont and received her MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. Her poetry and other writings have appeared in such venues as Down East magazine, Maine Times, and Bangor Daily News, as well as in many literary/haiku journals and anthologies. Her haiku chapbook It Always Comes Back was a winner of the 2020 Snapshot Press eChapbook Award. Her haiku collection ISLAND, published in 2023, was runner-up for the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Award.

Learn more at www.kristenlindquist.com, where you can sign up for Kristen's daily haiku newsletter.