A Way of Happening is Robert Stewart’s latest collection of essays on Art, Work, and Travel.

Author: Robert Stewart
Paperback : 176 pages
Literature: Essays
ISBN-13 : 9781972482155

Robert Stewart’s book of poems Higher (2023) won Prize Americana. Other books include The Narrow Gate: Writing, Art, & Values (2014, essays, Serving House Books); Working Class: Poems (2018, Stephen F. Austin State University); Outside Language: Essays (2004, Helicon Nine Editions, finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Awards, and winner of the Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence); and Plumbers (poems, BkMk Press, in revised 2nd edition, 2017).

He won a National Magazine Award for editing, from the American Society of Magazine Editors, the magazine industry’s highest honor, and served for many years as editor-in-chief of New Letters magazine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He founded Midwest Poets Series in 1983 and directed the series of readings for 36 years on behalf of Rockhurst University in Kansas City.

Endorsements for Robert Stewart

For Outside Language

“This is a beautiful and courageous collection of essays. . .  Who cannot be grateful for this dedicated, quietly joyful celebration of being and making.”  —Kelly Cherry

“The pleasure of these essays is in confronting a mind that is subtle, learned, yet informal, a sensibility that can embrace the earthiest as well as the most refined materials, and a craft that is highly evolved. Put yourself in Robert Stewart’s hands.”  —Phillip Lopate

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Endorsements for Robert Stewart

For The Narrow Gate

“Bob Stewart, one of the last of the great visionary editors, sets forth in these essays his arrow-sharp and deeply lived esthetic, philosophical and moral insights.”  —Andrei Codrescu

“Bob is a fine essayist and poet in his own right, with a command of imagery that suggest his roots in the real working world. He has, and both his writing and his editing convey it, the old-fashioned virtue of character.  —Janet Burroway

Endorsements for Robert Stewart

For poems, Higher

“Bob Stewart is a superb poet and essayist.  His keen eye and supple imagination are among his most remarkable gifts.”  —Conger Beasley Jr.

“Robert Stewart’s Higher is a treasure: witty, spare, emotionally generous . . .  How can a book by humble, idiomatic, and lofty at once? Open this literary treasure chest . . . and find out.’ —Marilyn Kallet