Stuart Kestenbaum
Host of Poems From HereStuart Kestenbaum is the author of the poetry collections Only Now (Deerbook Editions, 2014), Prayers & Run-on Sentences (Deerbook, 2007), House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook, 2003), and Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press, 1990)—and a collection of essays: The View From Here (Brynmorgen Press, 2012). A former director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, he is the poet laureate of Maine.