Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, philosophy, and more. Compiled by editor and poet Stuart Kestenbaum, the contributors represent a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, each honoring nature's power to heal, inspire, guide, amaze, and strengthen.Activist Maulian Dana of the Penobscot Nation writes on the intertwining relationship of motherhood and Mother Earth...

The View from Here is a unique book by one of Maine's favorite poet-arts administrators, Stuart Kestenbaum, Former director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and current director of Monsen Arts Gallery. 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."Stuart Kestenbaum's quiet ob...