Zoom into Poetry with Doug Holder

The WCPA is thrilled to present a virtual poetry reading with Ibbetson Street Press founder Doug Holder on Sunday, October 11, 2020, at 3:00 pm.   Holder served as the judge for our 2020 Annual Contest: the Frank O’Hara Prize.

Registration is needed to join the event.  Visit the Zoom registration link and fill in the form. A meeting link will be e-mailed to you.

Doug Holder is a recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Award, teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and Endicott College in Beverly, MA. Big Table Publishing published Holder’s recent poetry collection, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Poseur. Holder is the Arts Editor for The Somerville News, the director of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series, the producer of Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer on Somerville Community Access TV, and the co-founder of the Bagel Bards, a Somerville-based literary group. Holder’s poetry and prose have appeared in Rattle, The Boston Globe Magazine, the new renaissance, Istanbul Literary Review, Hazmat, Toronto Quarterly, Long Island Quarterly, Wilderness House Literary Review, and many others. Holder resides in the Boston area with his wife and his skittish and Yiddish kitty, Ketz.