I love the way almost every line in Stu Kestenbaum’s “Song of Ascents” suggests something about the nature of artistic process. Don’t we, when it’s going well, feel like we’re on a peak? But there’s that rickety aluminum ladder, and the times it feels like we’re trying to make beauty and form with flimsy tools—a […] The post Stuart Kestenbaum: Poetry appeared first on The Maine Arts Journal: The UMVA Quarterly.