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28/03/2026

Virginia Woolf is on my mind. She crossed over on this day in 1941, yet she is powerfully with us to this day. Praise & gratitude to her.

20/03/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertmcdowell/p/read-a-friends-heart-with-robert-df1?r=n2g5s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

A Fresh Start--The Vernal Equinox

11/03/2026

https://robertmcdowell.substack.com/p/courage-and-freedom-from-read-a-friends?r=n2g5s

"Love is a river, drink from it."

01/03/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertmcdowell/p/read-a-friends-heart-with-robert-401?r=n2g5s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Behead a month and find a besutiful form.

23/02/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertmcdowell/p/read-a-friends-heart-the-love-in?r=n2g5s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

A Poem, The Thing

18/02/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertmcdowell/p/ash-wednesday?r=n2g5s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

What will you give up?

13/02/2026

Great news! Bruce Lawder's new book, Three for the Road, a collection of three novellas, will appear from HLP later this year. We're delighted to have Bruce back with us.

02/02/2026

Students, teachers, and administrators at Kent State University proposed Black History Month in 1969. A year later, the first celebration of Black History Month took place at KSU from January 2 to February 28, 1970. Six years later, President Ford recognized the month of February as Black History Month.

30/01/2026

The poet, editor, and mentor, X. J. Kennedy has moved on to the world next to this one at the age of 96. Well done, Joe! On to your next adventure. Here is a link to an essay I've always admired. It's by A.M. Juster. https://www.amjuster.net/blog/2015/9/16/the-elegiac-xj-kennedy
AMJUSTER.NET
The Elegiac X.J. Kennedy — A.M. Juster

A key to understanding Joe Kennedy’s poetry is realizing that he is a man of God who no longer believes in God. More specifically, he is a man of the Roman Catholic God of the 1930’s and 1940’s, the God of detailed rites and rules embedded in a coherent and comforting metaphysics. The young Jo...

25/01/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertmcdowell/p/virginia-woolfs-birthday?r=n2g5s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Today is the 144th birthday of Virginia Woolf. In dog years, she is 1,008 (thank you, poet Dana Henry Martin!).

06/01/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertmcdowell/p/2026-so-together-we-begin?r=n2g5s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Only in the beauty of things

10/12/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertmcdowell/p/read-a-friends-heart-265-with-robert?r=n2g5s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Emily Dickinson at 196