Doug Holder

Books by Doug Holder

No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain

by Doug Holder

sunnyoutside, 2007.

The Man in the Booth in the Midtown T...

by Doug Holder

Lulu.com, 2008.

From the Paris of New England: Interv...

by Doug Holder

Unknown Publisher, 2011.

Poems of Boston and just beyond: From...

by Douglas S Holder

Alpha Beat Press, 1998.

Louisa Solano: The Grolier Poetry Boo...

by Louisa Solano, Doug Holder

Doug Holder, 2011.

About Me

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. http://ibbetsonpress.com He teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. He is the curator of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series in Newton, Mass, and has run poetry groups for psychiatric patients at McLean Hospital in the Boston area for over a decade. His own poetry and prose have appeared in The Boston Globe, Rattle, the new renaissance, The Endicot Review, The Long island Quarterly and others. Holder has run poetry groups at McLean Hospital (Belmont, Mass.) for the past 20 years. He is the arts/editor for The Somerville News, and holds an M.A. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University.

Doug Holder's work shows mastery, depth, and a brevity that results in memorable lines..." ( New Pages)/// "Doug Holder keeps the creative spirit and its messages alive."(Vivian Shipley--Editor of the Connecticut Review)/// "Holder has the eyes of a painter/sketcher/photographer.No one else on the scene can evoke so much reality with so few carefully chosen key descriptive words." (Small Press Review) /// " Holder has earned the nickname “Johnny Appleseed of Poetry” for his many years of writing, encouraging and promoting verse in Greater Boston. He is a Jewish poet, but while his faith infuses his work, his themes are too wide ranging to be pigeon-holed." (The Jewish Advocate--July, 2010) /// " "You've done an immense amount in making the Boston area (poetry) scene a genuine community." (Pamela Annas-- Associate Dean of Humanities UMASS--Boston)/// " "I am honored by your labors, and filled with admiration for what they offer us, writers, readers and citizens."--Fred Marchant (Founder of the Poetry Center-Suffolk University--Boston)/// "As for welcoming you on campus, we are so lucky to have you. I mean this. You are a great role model. You are a great writer, editor, poet -promoter teacher person." Charlotte Gordon- (Professor of English/Endicott College) " I admire the fostering way you've created a sheltering world for poetry around you." ( David Ferry-Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets)

Why do you write?

Doug Holder's work shows mastery, depth, and a brevity that results in memorable lines..." ( New Pages)/// "Doug Holder keeps the creative spirit and its messages alive."(Vivian Shipley--Editor of the Connecticut Review)/// "Holder has the eyes of a painter/sketcher/photographer.No one else on the scene can evoke so much reality with so few carefully chosen key descriptive words." (Small Press Review) /// " Holder has earned the nickname “Johnny Appleseed of Poetry” for his many years of writing, encouraging and promoting verse in Greater Boston. He is a Jewish poet, but while his faith infuses his work, his themes are too wide ranging to be pigeon-holed." (The Jewish Advocate--July, 2010) /// " "You've done an immense amount in making the Boston area (poetry) scene a genuine community." (Pamela Annas-- Associate Dean of Humanities UMASS--Boston)/// " "I am honored by your labors, and filled with admiration for what they offer us, writers, readers and citizens."--Fred Marchant (Founder of the Poetry Center-Suffolk University--Boston)/// "As for welcoming you on campus, we are so lucky to have you. I mean this. You are a great role model. You are a great writer, editor, poet -promoter teacher person." Charlotte Gordon- (Professor of English/Endicott College) " I admire the fostering way you've created a sheltering world for poetry around you." ( David Ferry-Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets)

Any favorite authors? Books?

Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Joseph Mitchell, John Updike, Richard Yates...