We are continuing our virtual poetry readings through the fall and the next event is next Sunday afternoon. Join on October 11 at 3:00 pm with Zoom into Poetry with Doug Holder.

Holder was our judge for our 2020 Annual Poetry Contest: The Frank O’Hara Prize. In a normal year we would have enjoyed hearing him read at a Winners’ Reading late in September. Alas, this is far from a normal year and so we’re taking the opportunity to hear him read via Zoom.
To join the event, please visit the Zoom registration page 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.