MARTIN STEINGESSER lives in Portland, Maine, where he is the city’s first poet laureate. He has published a book of poems, Brothers of Morning (Deerbrook Editions), and a cd, The Thinking Heart, which is a performance piece in two voices and cello based on the writings of a Dutch woman who died in the Holocaust.

www.martinsteingesser.com

Meeting Father

by Martin Steingesser, July 2009 (Issue 403)

Coming Home

by Martin Steingesser, February 2007 (Issue 374)

And Now

by Martin Steingesser, December 2005 (Issue 360)