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Stuart Kestenbaum, Poet Laureate of Maine, will join Bill Roorbach tonight, April 9, at 7 pm for a “coruscating evening of poetry.”
Stuart Kestenbaum is the author of five collections of poems, most recently How to Start Over (Deerbrook Editions 2019), and a collection of essays The View from Here (Brynmorgen Press). He’s the host of the Maine Public Radio program Poems from Here and was the host/curator of the podcast Make/Time. The director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts from 1988 until 2015, he has written and spoken widely on craft making and creativity, and his poems and writing have appeared in numerous small press publications and magazines including Tikkun, the Sun, the Beloit Poetry Journal, the New York Times Magazine, and on the Writer’s Almanac and American Life in Poetry. He was appointed Maine’s poet laureate in 2016. stuartkestenbaum.com
Stu is scheduled to co-teach WORDS AND IMAGES, October 18 – 24, 2020, with Susan Webster.
Other projects include a 28-episode podcast series, Make/Time, featuring interviews with leading makers and thinkers in craft and related fields: http://www.craftschools.us/podcast.html
Stu also broadcasts Poems from Here, weekly poems by Maine writers, available on Maine Public Radio and iTunes: https://www.mainepublic.org/programs/poems-here
To tune in tonight (April 9, 2020), download zoom.us, and then click the link below a little before 7 pm EDT. The meeting password is: 872517
