Christian Barter is a poet working and writing in Bar Harbor, Maine.  For the past thirty-five years, he has worked for the National Park Service at Acadia National Park as a trail crew supervisor, project manager, arborist, heavy equipment operator, dry stone mason, and specialist in park matters related to Americans with disabilities. He has published three previous collections of poetry, and has served as the Poet Laureate of Acadia National Park and as a Hodder Fellow in Creative Writing at Princeton University. His poems have been published in Ploughshares, Tin House, New Letters, Georgia Review, The American Scholar and Downeast and featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writers Almanac, and on the websites of the PBS Newshour and The Academy of American Poets. He recently released an album of original songs using text from Tennyson’s “In Memoriam, A.H.H.”