Come to the Abbe Museum on Thursday, June 20th, for a poetry reading by Mihku Paul (Maliseet) and a screening of her film, “Putep Qotatokot-te Elewestaq (The Whale was Speaking),” followed by a Q & A from 6:00pm - 7:00pm.

Programs are in-person at the Abbe’s downtown location (26 Mount Desert Street).

About Mihku Paul
Mihku Paul is a Wolastoqiyik or Maliseet poet, writer, visual artist, and activist. She is a member of Kingsclear First Nation, N.B., Canada and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development and Communication from the University of Southern Maine. Paul then received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. Paul has offered interactive storytelling sessions surrounding Wabanaki stories, and assists students with art projects by intertwining conceptual principles along with practical design. Along with Paul’s storytelling, she also uses her art and poetry to help educate non-native people about the condition of Wabanaki people in the Northeast. Outside the classroom Paul’s poetry and art support diversity projects, events, and have been installed in various museums. Paul got to share her storytelling, talent for poetry, and feelings on her education in her first chapbook, “20th Century PowWow Playland”, published in 2012. This chapbook is a compilation of poems in which the Maliseet lands are at points inventively populated with not just, “the ghosts of half a millennium” but also with “those who remain”.