Poet Stuart Kestenbaum reads at Penland School of Crafts, July 12

Stuart Kestenbaum is the author of four collections of poetry and is this year’s Andrew Glasgow Writing Resident at Penland School of Crafts. He’ll give a talk and reading at the school on Sunday, July 12 at 8:15 p.m.

Press release from Penland:

Poet Stuart Kestenbaum will speak and read from his poetry at Penland School of Crafts on Sunday, July 12 at 8:15 PM. Kestenbaum is spending several weeks at Penland as this year’s Andrew Glasgow Writing Resident. The reading will take place in the school’s Northlight building.

Kestenbaum is the author of four collections of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press), House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions), Prayers and Run-on Sentences (Deerbrook Editions), and Only Now (Deerbrook Editions). He has also written The View from Here (Brynmorgen Press), a book of brief essays on craft and community.

Kestenbaum 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, and on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He was the director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine for over twenty-five years, and was elected an honorary fellow of the American Craft Council in 2006.

Former US poet laureate Ted Kooser has written, “Stuart Kestenbaum writes the kind of poems I love to read, heartfelt responses to the privilege of having been given a life. No hidden agendas here, no theories to espouse, nothing but life, pure life, set down with craft and love.”

Established in honor of Andrew Glasgow, an Asheville resident and the retired director of the American Craft Council, the Andrew Glasgow Writing Residency gives writers, scholars, and curators an opportunity to pursue their work in a retreat environment and to interact with Penland’s workshops and with studio artists in the Penland community.