 | Bye-Bye Land Christian Barter is the author of three books of poetry: In Someone Else's House , winner of the 2014 Maine Literary Award; The Singers I Prefer , a Lenore Marshall Prize finalist; and Bye-Bye Land , winner of the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. His poetry appears widely in such places as Ploughshares, The Literary Review, Epoch, Georgia Review, and The American Scholar , and has been featured on The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily , and PBS Newshour . He has been a resident fellow at Yaddo and The McDowell Colony, and a Hodder Fellow in poetry at Princeton University. For more than 25 years, he has worked as a stone worker, rigger, arborist, equipment operator, and supervisor at Acadia National Park, where he is currently serving as the first-ever Poet Laureate. |
