'"Doug Holder"' by dougholder

Notes: I interviewed Hannah on my Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer Cable Access TV Show in Somerville, Mass. Shortly after she took her own life. I asked her why she relocated to Boston from NYC. She told me she grew up in the area, and " My begining is my end...

Notes: This collection was published by the Cervena Barva Press of Somerville, Mass. A sort of "Spoon River Anthology" for Somerville, Cambridge and Boston.

Notes: My graduate thesis at Harvard Unversity. My advisor was the acclaimed Yiddish Llterature professor Ruth Wisse.

Notes: I designed the front cover by putting my outstreched hand in a xerox machine. It was a magazine sized book, printed at Copy Cop store on Boylston St. in Boston in 1999...I was outrageously excited.

Notes: The poems here deal with Doug Holder's experiences in the city of Boston from the 1970's on, plus his years of employment at the psychiatric hospital: McLean Hospital" in Belmont, Mass. McLean is noted for its poet residents Lowell,Plath and Sexton. A Pic

Notes: These poems were put together in a chap--limited edition-illustration of the front cover by Richard Wilhelm.

Notes: Diana founded the little magazine "The Boston Poet" in the mid 90's.Many Boston area poets got their start here.

Notes: Don DiVecchio was the former poetry editor of "Spare Change News."

Notes: Tino is the probably the most noted Chicano poet of his generation. The winner of the American Book Award, he teaches at Boston University.