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Poet, Fiction Writer, Editor, Writing Coach, Publisher, Teacher/Mentor/Apprentice, Read a Friend's Heart
My dear friend and brother-poet, Liam Rector, died on this day in 2007. I miss you, Amigo.
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Today is Bastille Day
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
In 6 days (June 25th), June Lockhart will be 100 years old! Happy Solar Return to Lassie's second Mom and Mrs. Robinson!
19.06.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Robert McDowell has new poems in this issue:
Dear friends of and contributors to Crab Orchard Review :
Presenting the May 2025 issue of Crab Orchard Review!
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Allison Joseph, Editor
Celebrating my oldest son's birthday today. He is 38! How is that possible? He's here with his childhood best frient, Caitlin Baxter, at the Pioneer Picnic in Brownsville, Oregon. Just a moment ago...
27.04.2025 19:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At the end of a rainy, stormy week, I am grateful for those who are helping others survive unprecedented weather. I am grateful, too, for a new season of baseball, which comes with its spiritual practice. Here is a lovely article by David Lehman. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...
05.04.2025 14:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today is the anniversary of Virginia Woolf's death. robertmcdowell.substack.com/p/to-take-on...
28.03.2025 21:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here is my latest Read a Friend's Heart Newsletter with Robert McDowell, Poet robertmcdowell.substack.com/p/read-a-fri...
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Today is Sheelah's Day. Sheelah, powerful wife and partner of Saint Patrick.
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“Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”
― Jack Kerouac
Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac
Adrien Broom & the Emily Dickinson Museum collaboration is beautiful and graceful. Check it out here. Living history. www.instagram.com/p/DF791sHx6Y...
25.02.2025 16:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hello Everyone, & a pleasant good day wherever you may be. Snow in Southern Ohio is melting, though more may soon arrive. We're all, in a sense, in a perpetual process of 'digging out.' Our American predicament is complicated and deep, but it's nothing perseverance and shoveling won't change.
22.02.2025 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
REMEMBERING FREDERICK MORGAN, poet, publisher & co-editor (with his wife, Paula Deitz) of The Hudson Review, mentor & dear friend, who traveled on ahead of us on this day in 2004. Bless his good work. redhen.org/book_author/...
20.02.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Substack, look at Lit Mag News & Becky Tuch's take on writing contests of Narrative Mag. Wow! I'm sorry for the people who entered these contests, sorry for the Lit. field in general. Integrity still thrives, though, in thousands and thousands of places. Do not lose hope, yet Buyer Beware.
16.02.2025 19:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Will anyone apply now for National Endowment for the Arts grants? It seems the best protest, doesn't it? No one applies. What do you think?
Will anyone apply now for National Endowment for the Arts grants? It seems the best protest, doesn't it? No one applies. What do you think?
13.02.2025 20:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No matter how bleak the landscape all around, there is perseverance & beauty everywhere if only we slow our pace a little, breathe, & look.
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