Stuart kestenbaum biography
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AUGUSTA, MAINE--The Maine Arts Commission (MAC) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Maine’s fifth state poet laureate. Stuart Kestenbaum, a resident of Deer Isle, will succeed Wesley McNair, who held the position since By legislative statute, the State Poet Laureate is appointed for a five-year term and may be reappointed for a second consecutive term.
Kestenbaum’s predecessors include, in addition to McNair, Kate Barnes (), Baron Wormser (), and Betsy Sholl ().
“When I was at Haystack I would frequently read poems—often by Maine poets—to artists who came from all around the US and other countries,” Kestenbaum said in a recent interview.
“I wanted to give them a sense of place—of Maine—of its ingenuity and tenacity and of poetry’s power to slow the world down momentarily and let us see what’s most important.”
Stuart Kestenbaum is the author of four collections of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press),