Robert Stewart's 2023 book of poems, Higher, won the 2022 Prize Americana. Other books include The Narrow Gate: Writing, Art & Values (essays, Serving House Books); Working Class (poems, Stephen F. Austin University); Outside Language: Essays (Helicon Nine Editions, finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Awards, and winner of the Thorpe Menn Award); and Plumbers (poems, BkMk Press, in revised 2nd edition).
He won a National Magazine Award for editing from the American Society of Magazine Editors, 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 for 36 years, on behalf of Rockhurst University in Kansas City; the series featured readings by four nationally prominent writers per year.
Welcome, Robert!