Books
Image courtesy of the Monhegan Museum of Art & History
ISLAND
Published in May 2023 by Red Moon Press, ISLAND is my first full-length haiku collection! The book was awarded second place in the 2023 Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards and short-listed for a 2023 Touchstone Distinguished Book Award by the Touchstone Haiku Foundation.
Please scroll down for ordering information. Also available at:
Lupine Gallery, Monhegan, ME
Arctic Tern Books, Rockland, ME
Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick, ME
Left Bank Bookshop, Belfast, ME
Black Duck Emporium, Monhegan, ME
“Fewer than a dozen individual-poet haiku collections comprise what I’ve come to call my “desert island” books: works that I know would sustain and nurture me if, somehow, I had to forgo all others. Kristen Lindquist’s keenly observed and deeply evocative (plus presciently titled) first collection is now the latest addition to that select group.” —Scott Mason, author of The Wonder Code
“When Kristen Lindquist writes of ‘the loud clear song / of the fox sparrow,’ she might well be referring to herself scribbling a loud, clear love song to the islands of Maine. This collection is rich with imagery dug up as she ‘poke[s] through detritus left by the low tide.’ There is no cleverness, no artifice. Just the world as it presents itself to her, elevated to poetry through close observation, thoughtful juxtaposition, artful presentation, and touches of humor. No poet writing today has a keener eye. Take your time with these poems, and you will be greatly rewarded. As Lindquist reminds us, ‘some stories / take all day to tell / red-eyed vireo.’” —Carolyn Hall, author of butterflies under glass
WHAT WEATHERS, WHAT RETURNS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE BROADMOOR HAIKU COLLECTIVE
Edited by me and published by Red Moon Press in early 2023, What Weathers, What Returns features haiku written by the Broadmoor Haiku Collective, a group of haiku poets based (mostly) in New England that has been working together since early 2020: Brad Bennett, Alan S. Bridges, Judson Evans, Kristen Lindquist, Hannah Mahoney, Jeannie Martin, paul m (Paul Miller), Tom Sacramona, and Mary Stevens.
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“Get your own copy of this outstanding collection of haiku!” —Randy Brooks, poet, journal editor, and publisher, in his review in Modern Haiku (Issue 54.3).
IT ALWAYS COMES BACK
Now Available from Snapshot Press!
Winner of the Snapshot Press eChapbook Award 2020, my haiku chapbook is now available for free download here. Please visit the Snapshot Press website to check out all the wonderful books they publish, including many more free chapbooks and a yearly haiku calendar!
“Easy to recommend.” —Paul Miller, Editor, Modern Haiku
a new resonance 12: emerging voices in english-language haiku
Published May 2021
I am honored and thrilled to be included in A NEW RESONANCE 12: EMERGING VOICES IN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE HAIKU, edited by Jim Kacian & Julie Warther (Red Moon Press, 2021). This anthology features 15 poems each by 17 haiku poets: Jo Balistreri, Susan Burch, Jenny Fraser, Simon Hanson, Kristen Lindquist, Hannah Mahoney, Matthew Markworth, Lori A. Minor, Matthew Moffett, Michael Nickels-Wisdom, Keith Polette, Bryan Rickert, Tom Sacramona, Robin Anna Smith, Mary Stevens, Debbie Strange, and Stephen Toft. I have a few copies available for purchase; please see below for cost and ordering details.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award from The Haiku Foundation!
TOURISTS IN THE KNOWN WORLD: NEW & SELECTED POEMS
Published March 2017
"To really live in this world, you should love this world, celebrate it, sing about it, know the wind, the sky, the songs of the birds, know your own heart. Birds fly through these poems, poems by a woman who knows her world, knows her heart. She says, 'I mark my life with birds," "This is life in motion"—and we move with her, happy to follow wherever she wants to take us."
--Gary Lawless, author of CARIBOU PLANET
"TOURISTS IN THE KNOWN WORLD is cause for celebration. This richly satisfying collection has it all: alert clarity, reverence, an unflinching eye, and achingly matter-of-fact levity. Her work has a powerful sense of place and an emotional honesty that lights these well-crafted poems like a lantern... I love these poems—so clear-eyed and artful. Go ahead, be a tourist, visit her poetic world. You'll be glad you did."
--Dave Morrison, author of CLUBLAND and PSALMS
"Kristen Lindquist responds to the provocations of memory and desire with spirit and grace. Her poems are tuned to the seasons, to birds and their songs, to the heavens and the ground beneath her bare feet. She partakes of the natural world, conjuring mink frogs and the god of sea ducks. These poems are also about places—Chinatown, Monhegan, the gym—and about moonlight, black holes, and the Embers of Vesuvius. Be taken in."
--Carl Little, author of OCEAN DRINKER
Cover image: Full Moon over Lime and Lasell, by Maine artist Anneli Skaar. Used by permission.
Here's a great review of the book by Dana Wilde in the KENNEBEC JOURNAL/MORNING SENTINEL, posted 4.6.17.
Here’s another thoughtful review (scroll down page for link) by Scott Lesniewski, Contributing Editor at brilliant light publishing, on which website I am honored to be included as a “Recommended New England Poet”
I do not currently have any copies of this book for sale, but you might find it at one of these fine independent bookstores:
Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick, ME
Left Bank Books, Belfast, ME
Owl & Turtle Bookshop Cafe, Camden, ME
MainStreet BookEnds of Warner, Warner, NH
Barnswallow Books, Rockport, ME
Hello Hello Books, Rockland, ME
Black Duck Emporium, Monhegan, ME
Lupine Gallery, Monhegan, ME
Blue Hill Books, Blue Hill, ME
Leaf & Anna, Brooklin, ME
TRANSPORTATION, my first full-length poetry collection, was a finalist for the 2012 Maine Literary Award. Three poems from this book, including the title poem "Transportation," were read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio's The Writer's Almanac. (See below.) This book is currently out-of-print.
The title poem "Transportation" was also read on Maine Public Radio's program Poems from Here, hosted by Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum, on 20 October 2017.
"Like the crows that inhabit these lines, Kristen’s adept poems shimmer and soar. She describes the natural world and our human place inside it with the attention of prayer or plea. And then you turn the page, and she makes you laugh. This book leaves you full and glad to be alive."
—Elizabeth Tibbetts, author of the prize-winning In the Well
"Kristen Lindquist’s poems are not to be missed. Brisk but thoughtful, clear and inviting, they plunge us into the vulnerability of being human—and also into the rapturous joy of a human being at one with the all-sustaining metaphor of nature that still, somehow, manages to surround us and give us life."
—Kate Barnes, Maine's first Poet Laureate
"Kristen Lindquist’s poems are like a luminous field guide to the wildlife and mountain trails of Northern New England: she not only records vireo, blackpoll, tide shift and eon-layered rock face, but also shows us the fluidity between inner and outer worlds... Her attentiveness is indeed a kind of prayer."
—Betsy Sholl, former Maine Poet Laureate
Book cover image: Waterways in the Bay by Maine artist Eric Hopkins. Used by permission.
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ISLAND (Red Moon Press, 2023) - $20.00 + sales tax, shipping & handling = $26.00 each (If purchasing more than one book, please contact me for revised shipping & handling cost.) This book may also be ordered directly from the publisher.
WHAT WEATHERS, WHAT RETURNS (Red Moon Press, 2023) - $20.00 + sales tax, shipping & handling = $26.00 each (If purchasing more than one book, please contact me for revised shipping & handling cost.) This book may also be ordered directly from the publisher.
NEW RESONANCE 12 (Red Moon Press, 2021) - $20.00 + sales tax, shipping & handling = $26.00 each (If purchasing more than one book, please contact me for revised shipping & handling cost.) This book may also be ordered directly from the publisher.
TOURISTS IN THE KNOWN WORLD (Megunticook Press, 2017) - So sorry, but this book is currently unavailable from me. (You might have some luck at one of the bookstores listed above, though!)
TRANSPORTATION (Megunticook Press, 2011) - So sorry, but this book is currently unavailable.