The Wendell Gilley Museum's signature monthly speaker series continues in April—National Poetry Month—with naturalist and poet Kristen Lindquist offering a program (via Zoom) of her own poetry featuring Maine birds.

People-Nature-Art brings creative types of all kinds to the Gilley to explore the impact of nature on their art and creativity.

Click here to register via the Wendell Gilley Museum website.

Lindquist is a Pushcart-nominated poet and naturalist living in Camden. She has published two full-length collections of poetry: Transportation, which was a finalist for the Maine Literary Award, and Tourists in the Known World. Garrison Keillor has shared three of her poems on “The Writer’s Almanac.” An avid birder, Lindquist guides for the Acadia Birding Festival and wrote a natural history column for years for her local paper. She currently maintains a daily haiku blog and occasionally teaches haiku workshops.

Kristen is also a naturalist who, among other things, is a guide annually for the Acadia Birding Festival which is based at the Gilley.