Blog Entries for DougHolder

Ibbetson Street 23 is out!

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News from the Ibbetson Street Press

5/22/08

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COVERS FOR IBBETSON 23 Front (photo--Robin Weiss) Back--( painting Helen Bar Lev)

The 23rd issue of the Ibbetson Stree [...]

The Man In The Booth In The Midtown Tunnel by Doug Holder

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008The Man In The Booth In The Midtown Tunnel by Doug Holder

(Somerville, Mass.)

Ibbetson Street Press founder Doug Holder will be releasing a new collection of his poetry this summer (2008) through the Cervena Barva Press (http://cervenabarvapress.com ) "The Man I [...]

An Evening With Dylan Thomas' Daughter

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Somerville Poet Ifeanyi Menkiti Hosts Poet Aeronwy Thomas: Dylan Thomas' Daughter

I found myself on a cool evening in April walking to Dunkin Donuts in Harvard Square with Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of the late great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Aeronwy Thomas, a well-regarded educator and poet in her own right, is on a national tour talking about her father Dylan, who wrote some of the most revered verse in the 20th Century, as well as a critically acclaimed play "Under Milk Wood. [...]

Ibbetson Street Press Poetry Collection

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Ibbetson Press Book "Housekeeping" by Philip Burnham Jr. featured on NPR's

* Click on banner to get on Writer's Almanac site. Check archive if after April 4, 2008 for audio clip

Ibbetson Press Book "Housekeeping" by Philip Burnham Jr. featured on [...]

Poet Doug Holder sparks drive for poet/laureate in Somerville, Mass.

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Somerville Poet Wanted

An article from The Somerville News Somerville, Mass.

( pic--Doug Holder/ Somerville poet.)

Wanted: A poet for Somerville

By George P. Hassett

Their numbers are rival [...]

New Ibbetson Street Title: Manufacturing America by Lisa Beatman

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Poet Lisa Beatman puts on paper her experience at the Ames Paper Factory

A new book of poetry released by the Ibbetson Street Press of Somerville "Manufacturing America." Lisa Beatman, a well-known Boston area poet writes [...]

Robert Pinsky to recieve Ibbetson Street Press Award

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(Somerville, Mass.) Somerville's Ibbetson Street Press will be awarding former U.S. poet/laureate Robert Pinsky the Ibbetson Street Press Lifetime Achievement Award at the Somerville News Writers Festival, Nov. 11, 2007 7PM at the Dilboy VFW Hall ( 371 Summer St.) Davis Square, Somerville. The award, like the festival, is in its fifth year. It is awarded to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the poetry and or the small or alt [...]

Blood Soaked Dresses by Gloria Mindock

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BLOOD SOAKED DRESSES BY GLORIA MINDOCK

Published by Ibbetson Street Press

Now available for ordering ar http://www.lulu.com/content/1172519

This poetry book is about the atrocities committed in El Salvador during the civil war from 1980-1992. It is based on my talks with El Salvadoran refugees [...]

IBBETSON STREET PRESENTS: From Mist to Shadows by Robert K. Johnson

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IBBETSON STREET PRESENTS

From Mist To Shadow: Poems by Robert K. Johnson

Fred Marchant (Director of the Poetry Center at Suffolk University) writes of Johnson's work: "His is an art of transparency, an art in which language through its own devices becomes nearly invisible and what is seen through the scrim is usually an epiphany... The ordinary life is under the poet's gaze transformed into something approaching the sacred..."

"From Mist To Shadow" is an ap [...]

Ibbetson Street Press Poetry Award

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The Ibbotson Street Press Poetry Award is presented at the annual Somerville News Writers Festival held every year at the Jimmy Tingle Off-Broadway Theatre in Davis Square. The festival will be held November 11th this year. In past years poets and writers such as Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar-nominated novelist Tom Perotta, Iowa Writer's Workshop head Lan Samantha Chang, Sue Miller ( author of "The Good Mother") , Steve Almond, Boston Glob [...]