The View from Here: Craft, Community, and the Creative Process

by Stuart Kestenbaum

The View from Here is a unique book by one of Maine's favorite poet-arts administrators, Stuart Kestenbaum, Director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Collected here for the first time are more than three dozen observations made over the years in the Haystack newsletter, Gateway. Also included are the texts from three keynote speeches Mr. Kestenbaum has presented.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Stuart Kestenbaum of Deer Isle, Maine, is the state's poet laureate and senior advisor at Monson Arts. Formerly the director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Kestenbaum has authored five poetry collections as well as The View from Here, a collection of essays.