Hi- This is the personal page of Poet, Doug Holder.

Doug Holder is a small press poet, who has been published in such magazines as:

Northeast Corridor, The New Renaissance, Harvard Mosaic,  Can We Have Our Ball Back, Artworld Quarterly, Sub-Terrain ( Canada), The Boston Globe, Arts Around Boston, Ilyia's Honey, Manifold (U.K.) MainSt. Rag, 96Inc... and others. He has run  poetry workshops at McLean Hospital for psychiatric patients for over a decade, and teaches a poetry workshop at Newton Community Education. Under his publishing house "Ibbetson Street Press," he has published chapbooks of such poets as: Jack  Powers, Robert K. Johnson,  Hugh Fox,  Lo Galluccio, Linda Haviland Conte, Don DiVecchio, Marc Widershien and others. His journal has included poets such as:  Deborah Priestly, Marc Goldfinger, Jennifer Matthews, Diana Der- Hovanessian, Joanna Nealon, Richard Wilhelm, Lyn Lifshin and many more. He has appeared on Boston, Cambridge and Newton Cable T.V., and has been on WBZ (AM) and MIT radio, as well as Allston and Cambridge Free Radio. Doug is the author of several chaps, including: POEMS OF BOSTON AND JUST BEYOND, WAKING IN A COLD SWEAT, ON EITHER SIDE OF THE CHARLES, and DREAMS AT THE AU BON PAIN. He is a graduate of Buffalo State College, (1977) and Harvard University (M.A. Lit.-1997). He was a contributing editor for the Singing Bone Press anthology, CITY OF POETS: 18 BOSTON VOICES, released in the Fall of 2000. Doug has been a featured reader at the Boston Public Library, Writer's Harvest, Stone Soup Poets(Zeitgiest Gallery), Mass. Poetry Society, Whittier House(Amesbury),McLean Hospital Annual Awards, Somerville Central Library and West Branch, Zero Garden St., (Cambridge), Newton Free Library, Armenian Holocaust Memorial (Copley Square, Boston), Compost Magazine Reading, West Crook Review Reading, Boston Poetry Marathon (BPL),  Borders Books (Boston), Forest Hills Chapel Series, the new renassiance magazine 35th Birthday Celebration, and the Dire Reader series ( Feb.2003). Recently he won  awards for poetry at the Maine Writers Conference ( Summer 2000),   for editing, Lucid Moon Poetry Award  (2003) and has been nominated for  two Cambridge Poetry Awards. Doug was the former president of STONE SOUP POETS, INC. and several years ago founded an online poetry book review service IBBETSON UPDATE. He is the Boston editor for Poesy  Magazine, a member of the advisory board for the  new renassiance magazine, and the Arts/ Editor for The Somerville News.  Doug has been the subject of feature articles in the Boston Globe, Belmont Citizen, Cambridge Chronicle, Spare Change, Poesy, Somerville Journal, Jewish Advocate, and The Somerville News.  Doug is the director of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series, and has released four new books from his Ibbetson Street Press, "Living It"  by Joanna Nealon,  "The Woman Has A Voice" by Deborah Priestly   "Hot Rain" by Lo Galluccio, and "Fairytales and Midemeanors" by Jennifer Matthews. He is the host of Somerville Community Access TV's  " Poet to Poet/Writer To Writer. " He is the co-founder of the Somerville News Writers Festival. His most recent poetry has appeared in the  Out of the Blue Writers Unite ( Anthology),  Poesy Magazine and the Dogwood Journal. He was a visiting poet at Endicott College for November 2004. Doug has joined Sunpiper Literary Consultants as a manuscript consultant. He was recently appointed to the board of faculty advisors of the "Wilderness House Literary Retreat" in Littleton, Mass.

LINKS :  Ibbetson Update   http://yahoogroups.com/group/ibbetsonstreetpressupdate

 IBBETSON PRESS-   http://homepage.mac.com/rconte

Author's Den Site:          http://www.authorsden.com/douglasholder

Ibbetson Update ( a forum for the small press-please join!)  http://yahoogroups.com/group/ibbetsonstreetpressupdate

Poesy Magazine  www.poesy.org

Lucid Moon- www.lucidmoonpoetry.com

Jennifer Matthews ( author of Fairytales and Misdemeanors, and a vocalist on the Rock Scene in Boston)  http://www.jennifermatthews.com

Timothy Gager  ( host of the Dire Reader series in Cambridge)  http://www.timothygager.com

Boston Girl Guide  http://www.bostongirlguide.com

the new renaissance magazine   http://tnrlitmag.net

The Somerville News   http://www.thesomervillenews.com

Wilderness House Literary Retreat  http://www.wildernesshouse.org

Lo Galluccio   ( author of "Hot Rain." )                  http://www.logalluccio.com