Doug Holder
- Age: 54
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Cancer
- Zodiac Year: Sheep
- Industry: Publishing
- Location: Somerville : Mass. : United States
About Me
(Doug Holder (right) giving Ibbetson Street Press Lifetime Achievement Award to former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky) Doug Holder was nominated for three Pushcart Prizes in poetry. Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. He is the arts/editor for "The Somerville News," and the director of the "Newton Free Library Poetry Series," in Newton, Mass. His audio and video taped interviews with contemporary poets are archived at Harvard , Poets House (NYC) and Buffalo University libraries. His articles and poetry have appeared in: The Boston Globe, Small Press Review, Rattle, the new renaissance, Caesura, Poesy, Main St. Rag, Home Planet News, and others. Holder was included in the anthology "Inside the Outside..." (Presa Press) a major collection of American Avant-Garde verse. In Dec. 2007 he was a guest of the "Voices Israel" literary organization and conducted workshops and read from his work in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. He is the cofounder of The Somerville News Writers Festival that has featured such poets and writers as: Franz Wright, Robert Pinksy,and many more. His poetry and interviews have been translated into French and Spanish.
Interests
- "A poet and a chronicler of the local arts scene"-- Jan Gardner/ The Boston Globe
- "Doug
- I think you are one of the rare forces for truth and beauty in all New England. Thanks for what you do." Sidewalk Sam/Bob Guillemin ArtStreet.org "Hi Doug
- I just want to tell you how much I appreciate your editing and presentation of our interview on your blogspot. You worked a little alchemy on my mumbling and made it intelligible and even at times intelligent. I'm indebted to you. Thank you very much." Alfred Nicol/ Winner of the Richard Wilbur Award for his poetry collection "Winter Light." "I’m writing a brief entry on the Grolier for the forth coming Oxford Companion to the Book. Your BLOG piece on the Grolier was very helpful. Thanks— Paul W. Wright PhD./ Editor Emeritus UMass Press _____________________________ "This is a great blog!" Kate Snodgrass / Artistic Director Boston Playwrights Theater. Comment on Sarah Hannah interview: "Thanks for the link
- Doug. It is a tantalizing conversation. Very interesting about the title of Longing Distance..." (Poet A.E. Stallings-- Poetry Foundation Blog) Comment on Gloria Mindock interview: "very nice piece you did on Gloria Mindock: with out people like you writing as you do
- much of the goodness in our society would pass unknown outside of our local circles. It is fortunate for us that so many transformative people have come together in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville and are supporting each other so well." Jared Smith / Poet/ Advisory Board of New York Quarterly "I have always admired someone who can dash of a coherent review like that
- Doug. Thanks and more thanks." Tino Villanueva/ American Book Award Winner: "Scene From the Movie GIANT" ( 1994) "I really enjoyed it...your roving and accurate eye...thanks for all." Fred Marchant ( Director of Poetry Center-Suffolk University--Boston) Commenting on "From Somerville to the Bowery"
