Author: Robert McDowell
Gratitude
I am grateful for all who are helping others survive unprecedented weather threats, and for those who stand firm against violations of human rights. I’m also grateful for a new baseball season, for its gifts of spiritual practice and meditation. Here is a lovely article by David Lehman from Best American Poetry. My comment follows.… Continue reading Gratitude
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays to our brave readers, authors, donors, critics, and our dedicated staff. Blessings to your families and friends, your challenges and your spiritual practices. Looking ahead to 2025, HLP will present for your approval and entertainment a new book of poems, Breakwater Rock, by Bruce Lawder, and two beautiful art books by legendary photographer… Continue reading Happy Holidays
Writing for the Global Good ⏤ Keeping Alive the Stories of Our Time
Homestead Lighthouse Press’s award-winning author Michael Favala Goldman, whose Small Sovereign was selected as the “Best Book of Poetry” in 2022 by the Los Angeles Book Festival, knocked it out of the park Friday night, September 27, at the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival at the Emily Dickinson Museum (“The Homestead”). Michael, whose new book… Continue reading Writing for the Global Good ⏤ Keeping Alive the Stories of Our Time
Did You Say Rabbits?
Did you know that HLP’s Robert Wallace Bennett, author of the memoir The Man of the House, is also the world’s foremost expert on rabbits? It’s true! In Raising Rabbits the Modern Way, Vermont resident Bob Bennett shares everything you’ll ever need to know about rabbits, including how to dress them, if you are so… Continue reading Did You Say Rabbits?
New Poems by Bruce Lawder
Homestead Lighthouse Press is proud to announce the impending publication of its latest book, Dwarf Stories, poems by Bruce Lawder. Readers might remember Bruce from his earlier HLP volume, Shorelines. We asked Bruce to describe his latest collection, and here is what he said: “I call these short stories “dwarf stories,” because they are shorter… Continue reading New Poems by Bruce Lawder