As 2026 comes to a close, HLP is pleased to announce that it has published two new poetry collections and a trio of novellas: ✦ Kenneth Lyon’s Listening to the Icemaker: poems frozen in time (October 10, 2026); ✦ Robert McDowell’s The Excellent Assembly: Poems Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 (September 11, 2026); and… Continue reading 2026 Fall and Summer Publications
Author: Robert McDowell
Summer Highlights
HLP’s Coming New Collections If you haven’t visited us here recently at Homestead Lighthouse Press, you are missing the latest site updates, including the following announcements about our two forthcoming collections. A Trio of Novellas One of our favorite writers, Bruce Lawder, is following up on his poetry collection Breakwater Rock with 3 For the… Continue reading Summer Highlights
The Host of the Air by W. B. Yeats
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