Prayers & Run-on Sentences - Deerbrook Editions

September, 2008 American Life in Poetry: Column 181 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006

"Stuart Kestenbaum, the author of this week's poem, lost his brother Howard in the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. We thought it appropriate to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, by sharing this poem." https://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/181.html

September, 2008 American Life in Poetry: Column 181 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006

In Praise of Prayers & Run-on Sentences, from the back cover—

Stuart Kestenbaum writes the kind of poems I love to read, heartfelt responses to the privilege of having been given a life. No hidden agendas here, no theories to espouse, nothing but life, pure life, set down with craft and love.
—Ted Kooser

Stuart Kestenbaum is a poet of immense fluency, elegance, and deep humanity. I bow to his work.

—Naomi Shihab Nye

In April, 2015, April Prayer was read on The Writer's Almanac, and on April 5, 2009;
From this book the poem Psalm was read on The Writer's Almanac on August 30, 2007., and on Jan 2005 Starting the Subaru at Five Below; The Writer's Almanac archive has moved all or in part and must be searched.