Writing and presenting poems is a way I touch and make present a sense of grace I want in my life. There are moments I love in poems I have made– when they are given, when windows, doors, walls blow off, and I am in a warm, boundless space with whoever is listening.

Nourished in Maine’s northern light since 1981, I present poems throughout New England, including New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York, sometimes Al Alimon with my partner, performance artist Judy Tierney.

“Martin Steingesser’s poems articulate the many seasons of the heart– joy, outrage, longing, whimsy, sadness,” said Baron Wormser, one of Maine’s Poet Laureates, of his book Brothers of Morning. “A burning, tender voice that rejoices in the ungainly splendors of human feeling.”

“He is a musician and acrobat,” says Laure-Anne Bosselaar, “his book ablaze with imagination.”

His poems have been published in a broad spectrum, from national magazines, newspapers and zines, like The Sun, The Progressive, The New York Times and Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac, to poetry journals, such as Inkwell, Tiferet Journal, Janus Head and The American Poetry Review.

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