Press Announcements
2025
December 16, 2025
Please help Homestead Lighthouse Press reach its $3,000 goal before the Christmas holiday arrives! The campaign has raised to date $1,167.00, for which HLP is most grateful. We need just $1,833.00 more to ensure sufficient funds are available to publish our ambitious lineup of six new books of poetry and two prose collections.
All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Won’t you join our other generous donors? By supporting our GoFundMe campaign, you will be helping to sustain for another full year our nonprofit’s continued existence and the livelihood of our inspiring and daring authors.
November 7, 2025
Hi, everyone! Please see HLP’s GoFundMe fundraising campaign for 2026. Every tax-deductible donation you make supports another year of publishing daring books of poetry and prose. Thank you!
May 18, 2025
Bruce Lawder’s new book of poetry, Breakwater Rock, is now available!
Breakwater Rock is a book of exits and entrances, and, equally important, of the bridge that is the critical experience between the two. Born of an epiphany the author experienced as he was wheeled into surgery in a Swiss hospital, Lawder saw how to overcome space and time and bring together the two halves of his life lived in Switzerland and the U.S. Lawder describes this process as putting back together “the two tectonic plates of my life.” The results of this fearless effort of reclamation are poems of superb lyric and contemplative insight.
Little Collage
– Pray you, draw homewards.
Once more to walk the place,
tongues in the trees,
books in the running brooks,
as if there were
no enemy
but winter and rough weather
–
Exile from exile,
free at last of war –
color it blossom, color
it fall,
each leaf a letter,
silence over all.
May 12, 2025
Writing Workshop Opportunity
A writing workshop combining writing and Tai Chi and featuring HLP poet Michael Favala Goldman is scheduled at the Northampton Center for the Arts on June 7 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Participants will move back and forth between writing and discussion indoors, and learn Tai Chi practices outdoors, weather permitting.
Recently published poems by Michael Favala Goldman can be enjoyed in the pages of Bar Bar and Sad Girl Diaries.
Goldman continues to lead bi-monthly Poetry Critique Meet-ups through Straw Dog Writers and the Northampton Center for the Arts. All poets are welcome.
January 29, 2025
Bruce Lawder’s poem “Another Winter’s Tale,” from his forthcoming collection for HLP, Breakwater Rock, appears at Every Day Poems on Substack.
January 14, 2025
Michael Favala Goldman’s poetry collection “Destinations” is the subject of reviewer Glynn Young’s “Poets and Poems” column at TweetSpeak Poetry.
In “Michael Favala Goldman writes of relationships and brokenness,” Young notes that it is Goldman’s “simple, almost stark language” that “creates the sense of statement of fact,” giving the writer a “unique voice that sets him and his poems apart.”
Goldman has published several other books with HLP, including his prize-winning “Small Sovereign.” (See Books & Authors for more information.)
2024
September 25 – October 25, 2024
Launch of HLP Fundraising Campaign on Go Fund Me
September 27, 2024
HLP poet Michael Favala Goldman participated in “Open Mic Night” at the Homestead. Hosted by poets Oliver de la Paz and Diannely Antigua, the program was part of the 12th Annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival in Amherst, Massachusetts.
September 29, 2024
Release of Dennis Sampson’s What It Must Be Like: Poems