LIVE AT THE BLUE HILL LIBRARY
BLUE HILL—To celebrate National Poetry Month, the Blue Hill Library is hosting poets Stuart Kestenbaum, Carl Little and Martin Steingesser. Their reading will take place in the library’s Howard Room on Thursday, April 23, at 7:00 p.m. Books will be available for purchase and signing, with part of the proceeds supporting the library.
Kestenbaum is the author of three books of poems, most recently "Prayers & Run-on Sentences." His poems have been read on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and featured in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s nationally syndicated American Life in Poetry column. As director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Kestenbaum has integrated poetry into the craft curriculum.
Little’s poems have appeared in Down East, Puckerbrush Review, Narramissic Notebook, Wolf Moon Journal and other publications. His collection "Ocean Drinker: New & Selected Poems" appeared in 2006. He is director of communications and marketing at the Maine Community Foundation where he oversees the Dibner Writing Fellowship.
The first poet laureate of Portland, Steingesser has performed his poetry across Maine and beyond. He recently completed a series of poems based on the journal and letters of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch woman who died in the Holocaust. Steingesser is the author of "Brothers of Morning." His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including the American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal and Café Review.
All three poets are featured in "The Maine Poets: An Anthology of Verse," edited by Wesley McNair.
