Doug Holder

Somerville

Arts Editor at The Somerville Times- Beacon Hill Roll Call

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. He is the arts/editor of The Somerville Times. https://t.co/VG5Q2GolWO

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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

1 week ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

The Red LettersIn ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters. To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day we wake together beneath the sun is a red-letter day. ––Steven Ratiner Flashback Friday:Red Letter Poem #5Lingua FrancaMy language languishes:it neither scampers nor frisks;it executes no back-flips,no handstands, no moonwalks;it does not somersault; it does not pirouette;it neither pounces like the cobranor springs like the yearling lamb.
Somerville's Vie Ciné: Provides healing with the stroke of the brush.

1 week ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

Interview with Doug HolderRecently I caught up with Somerville artist, and therapist Vie Cine, the founder of the therapeutic arts organization "Paint Your Truth."How has it been for you working your craft in Somerville? I’m the founder and lead facilitator of Paint Your Truth, a mobile process painting workshop series I began in 2016 in response to the #MeToo Movement, inspired by the work of Tarana Burke.
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

1 week ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

I have had a number of friends who lost loved ones over the past few months. When I first lost Dianne-- my wife--she spoke to me--through subtle ways--through birds ( we agreed on those as messengers), my dreams, my cat Klezmer, and even her voice--when I was in the limbo between sleep and wakefulness As the years went by--I felt less connected.
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

2 weeks ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

The Red LettersIn ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters. To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day we wake together beneath the sun is a red-letter day. ––Steven Ratiner Red Letter Poem #250Even if you hadn’t cracked a hundred homersand rounded the bases backwards,even if your mitt couldn’t reachfrom the starstruck green of center fieldstraight up to Marsto snatch fly balls from the sky,I would have loved you. Because you feared no one.
The Organizing Music in Robert Pinsky’s poem ‘Branca’

2 weeks ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

A Handpicked Poemby Michael Todd SteffenThe Organizing Music in Robert Pinsky’s poem ‘Branca’Who the heck is Ralph Branca? Well, as baseball fans (and there are poets among this group) may know, Branca was a not bad, not bad at all pitcher in the Major Leagues between 1944 and 1956, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Detroit Tigers, and finally with the New York Yankees.
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

2 weeks ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

The Red LettersIn ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters. To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day we wake together beneath the sun is a red-letter day. ––Steven Ratiner Red Letter Poem #249Brief Candlefor Linda Segal-CrawleyI’d like to walk you back to oriolesgorging on spring catkinsunder the willow’s sweep. I’d like to sit with you on the Great Lawn.
Good Grief: Poet Steven Ratiner dances with 'Grief' in his new collection of poetry

3 weeks ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

Interview conducted by Doug HolderThe noted poet Martha Collins writes of Ratiner's collection:"In this heartbreakingly beautiful book, Steven Ratiner constructs a seamless fabric of grief, weaving threads of memory, keen observation of the natural world, variations on religious tradition, and an active awareness of language.
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

4 weeks ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

The Red LettersIn ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters. To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day we wake together beneath the sun is a red-letter day.
Capital’s Grave by Jodi Dean, The New Era of Lords and Serfs

1 month ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

Capital’s Grave by Jodi Dean, Verso Books, London, 2025. 169 pages. The New Era of Lords and SerfsReview by Ed MeekJodi Dean, an American political theorist and professor in the Political ScienceDepartment at Hobart and William Smith College, made the news last year when she lost her position because she expressed her pro-Palestinian stance on campus. She has since been reinstated.
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

1 month ago | dougholder.blogspot.com | Doug Holder

The Red LettersIn ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters. To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day we wake together beneath the sun is a red-letter day. ––Steven Ratiner Red Letter Poem #247EscapementBarefoot at the screen door, I watched:my wife, my son, the blue car driving off,his arm thrust through the far window,a single wing beating, and then my ownsmall tick-tock of a wave in response, bye-bye.