Featuring a new title, “Only Now,” poems by Kestenbaum, the director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine since 1988. He is an honorary fellow of the American Craft Council and a recipient of the Distinguished Educator s Award from the James Renwick Alliance. He is the author of three collections of poems, “Pilgrimage, House of Thanksgiving,” “Prayers” and “Run-on Sentences.”

Harris has taught at Colby College since 1974. His chapbook, “Blue Hallelujahs,” won the Maine chapbook competition in 1996. His work has appeared in, among other places, The Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, and Green Mountains Review. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Arts, Red Cinder House, and the Tyron Guthrie Center in Ireland, and has been awarded a Martin Dibner Writing Fellowship. Harris will read from his recent title “Freeing the Hook.”

Sloan is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Poetry Program and loves living in Maine, at the edge of the world, with his wife Christine where they both work in Maine’s only Waldorf high school. He is the author of two books on teaching: “Stages of Imagination: Working Dramatically with Adolescents,” and “Life Lessons: Reaching Teenagers through Literature.” He is a recipient of the 2012 Betsy Sholl and Maine Literary awards, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Sloan will read from his recent book, “The Irresistible In-Between.”

The event is free and open to the public.