Doug Holder: Curriculum Vitae

2009-07-09T18:46:00.001-07:00

Curriculum Vitae
Doug Holder
25 School Street
Somerville, MA 02143
617-628-2313
dougholder@post.harvard.edu

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, M.A. English and American Literature and Language. 1997.

State College of New York at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. B.A. History 1977.

Boston University. Boston, Mass. Liberal Arts. 1973-1975.

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts/Boston, Boston, MA, William Joiner Writers’ Workshop, 2000-2001.

Boston University. Boston, MA, Paralegal Certification. 1989.

Emmanuel College, Boston, MA, Massachusetts. Teaching Certificate, 1980.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sept. 2010 to... Office of the Ibbetson Street Press at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. Established an office for my independent press, a visiting author series, and student mentorships in the Boston area.

July 2010 to... Arts and Idea Faculty. Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston. Newton, Mass. Poetry Workshop Leader.

Jan. 2010 to... Adjunct Professor. College Writing. Bunker Hill Community College. Boston, Mass.

Jan. 2004- Feb. 2010. Lecturer. Poetry Workshop Leader. Newton Community Education. Newton, Mass. Seminar: "Residency in the Asylum: Poets of McLean Hospital." Poetry Workshops.

Sept 2009 to...
Adjunct Professor, Endicott College, Beverly, Mass. Internship Program/College Writing Seminar/Creative Writing

Sept 2008 to Present.
ISCS PRESS Littleton, Mass. Senior Editor. Involved with the promotion of book projects for this publishing service agency.

2006 to Present.
Book Review Editor, Wilderness House Literary Review

2006 to 2007.
Middlesex Beat. Shirley, Mass. Feature writer for this monthly arts magazine.

2004 -007
Public Relations Consultant, the new renaissance literary magazine, Endicott College, Peabody, MA. Established affiliation and office for the magazine with Endicott College in 2007

2003-Present
Co-Director and Founder. Somerville News Writers Festival. Somerville, Mass.

2003-Present
Host, Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer, Somerville Community Access TV, Somerville, MA

2002-Present
Curator, Newton Free Library Poetry Reading Series, Newton, MA

2001-Present
Arts Editor, The Somerville News, Somerville, MA

2000 to 2001 President. Stone Soup Poets. Boston, Mass.

1999 -Present.
Boston editor. Poesy Magazine. Santa Cruz, Ca.

1998-Present
Publisher, Ibbetson Street Press, Somerville, MA

1992.
Editorial Assistant, Boston Review, Somerville, MA

1982 – 2009
Counselor and Poetry Workshop Leader, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA

BOOKS AUTHORED

POETRY

Poems from the Left Bank: Somerville, Mass. (Alternating Current-2010)

The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel (Cervena Barva Press, 2008)

Of All The Meals I Had Before (Cervena Barva Press, 2007)

No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain (sunnyoutside, 2007)

Wrestling With My Father (Yellow Pepper Press, 2005)

Dreams at the Au Bon Pain (Ibbetson Street Press, 2003)

Waking In A Cold Sweat (Ibbetson Street Press, 1999)

Poems of Boston and Just Beyond: From the Back Bay to the Back Ward (Alpha Beat Press, 1998)

NON-FICTION

From the Paris of New England: Interviews with Poets and Writers (Ibbetson Street, 2009)

Louisa Solano: The Grolier Poetry Book Shop (non-fiction) (Ibbetson Street Pres, 2006)

SELECTED INTERVIEWS

Some of my interviews with contemporary poets and writers, both audio and video, are housed at Buffalo University, Harvard University and Poet’s House (NYC) libraries. Below is a list of selected interviews I conducted with poets, writers, and other figures in the Arts.

Robert Creeley (Wilderness House Literary Retreat), Lois Ames (Biographer of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath -- Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer-Somerville Community Access TV), Afaa Michael Weaver (author of "Plum Flower Dance"-- Poet to Poet...) Lan Samantha Chang (Director of the Iowa Writers Workshop -- The Somerville News), Tom Perrotta (Author of "Little Children" The Somerville News), Pagan Kennedy,(The Middlesex Beat), Mort Sahl (The Somerville News), Sarah Hannah (Author of "Longing Distance"-- Poet to Poet...) Steve Almond (Author of "Candyfreak," The Somerville News), Martha Collins (Author of "Blue Front"-- Poet to Poet...) Shay Duffin (Actor-"Confessions of an Irish Rebel" The Somerville News.) Tino Villanueva (Winner of the American Book Award, Boston University Professor...) Claire Messud (The Somerville News), Mark Pawlak (Hanging Loose Press- Poet to Poet), Dick Lourie (The Somerville News), Charles Coe (Mass. Cultural Council- Poet to Poet...), C. Michael Curtis (Atlantic Fiction editor)-- (The Littleton Independent), Sam Cornish (Boston Poet Laureate), Clayton Eshleman (Translator), Elizabeth Swados (Poet,and Obie Award-winning Playwright), Fred Marchant, Eve Bridburg (Founder of Grub St.) Chris Castellani, Ruth Lepson (Poet-in-Residence/New England Conservatory of Music), Celia Gilbert, Jay Atkinson (Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway and My Search for America) a Charlotte Gordon ("The Woman Who Named God.") Joan Leegant ("Wherever You Go.") Nancy Rubin Stuart ("The Muse of the Revolution"), Daniel Kimmel (Past President of the Boston Society of Film Critics and the author of the "Fourth Network") Michelle Hoover ("The Quickening"), Hugh Fox (Founding editor of the PUSHCART PRIZE), DeWitt Henry (Founder of Ploughshares).

PUBLICATION CREDITS – Poetry & Prose (Partial list.)

The Boston Globe Magazine, The Boston Globe, America’s Favorite Poems (Edited by Robert Pinky) Middlesex Beat, Northeast Corridor, 96 Inc., Manifold (UK), Toronto Quarterly, The Small Press Review, Dudley Review (Harvard University), Writer’s Journal, Cambridge Chronicle, HAZMAT, Raintown Review, Illyia's Honey, The Long Island Quarterly, Quercus Review, The Somerville News, Rattle, Caesura, The Café Review, STUFF, the new renaissance, Istanbul Literary Review, Kaleidoscope, Endicott Review, Iodine, The Boston Poet, Main Street Rag, Free Verse, Poesy, Poetica, COMPOST, Sahara, Harvard Mosaic, Voices Israel, American Poetry Monthly, Poetry Motel, The Best of the Boston Literary Magazine, sunnyoutside reader, Inside the Outside: An Anthology of American Avant-Garde Poets (Presa Press),The Jewish Advocate, Poetry Monthly International( U.K.),Poiesis, Houston Literary Review, Poetry Quarterly, and others.

COURSES TAUGHT

College Writing Seminar: Urban American Society, English Composition, Internship Seminar, Introduction to Creative Writing, Introduction to Poetry.

READINGS, LECTURES, ETC... (Partial list)

Grace Paley Tribute Reading. Sponsored by The William Joiner Center U/Mass Boston. Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church-- Cambridge, Mass. Dec. 2011.

Grolier Poetry Room. 11 Bow St. Somerville, Mass. "Madness at the Grolier." Organized and was a host/reader of this inauguration of the new Grolier Poetry Book Shop Poetry Room. Feature readers included Lois Ames, Kathleen Spivack, Bob Clawson and others... Nov. 2011

Cape Cod Writers Center. Small Press Panel. Craigsville, Mass. Aug 2011.

Yanafide Foundation. "You are not Alone Series." Brockton Public Library Brockton, MA. June, 2011.

The First Annual Writers Conference. Hunter College. NYC. Small Press Panel. June, 2011.

Mass. Poetry Festival. Salem, Mass. The Life of a Poet Panel. Particpated with poets Susan Rich, Ravi Shaukar, Aimee Nezukmatahil, and Jennifer Jean. May 2011

Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Cambridge, Mass. Writers Life Series. Anthologies and Group Publishing Panelist. April, 2011.

Southern Connecticut State University. New Haven, CT. Publishing and Writing Life Workshop. Conducted workshops that concerned the small press and publishing. Also discussion of the writer's life: how to make a living and continue to pursue your art. April, 2011.

Center for the Arts at the Arts Armory. First and Last Word Series. Somerville, Mass. Read with Lloyd Schwartz and Ifeanyi Menkiti. Jan. 2011.

Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston. Newton, Mass. Publishing Panel. Jewish Book Fair. Nov., 2010.

Concord Poetry Center. Concord, Mass. Featured reader. Concord Poetry Festival. Oct., 2010

Bunker Hill Community College. Boston, Mass. Featured reader. Oct, 2010.

Boston Tea Party Poetry Marathon. Featured Poet. Outpost Gallery. Cambridge, Mass. July, 2010.

Director and workshop leader of the Ibbetson Street Press: Writing, Publishing and Reading Series. Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston. Newton, Mass. July 2010.

Guest Columnist. Sketchbook:A Journal for Eastern & Western Short Forms. June 2010 to Present.

Newton Open Studios. Featured Poet. Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston. Newton, Mass. May 2010.

Perkins School for the Blind. Watertown, Mass.(Olive Lacy Recording Studio) Recording of Holder's poetry collection "The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel" (Cervena Barva Press-2008) for an audio book for the Blind. The book will be sent to the National Library for the Blind, part of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. April, 2010.

Cambridge Populist Poetry Festival. Featured Reader. Cambridge, Mass. April 2010

Cornelia Street Cafe. New York City. Featured Reader. Dec. 2009

Wayland Public Library. Wayland, Mass. Poetry Workshop. Oct 2009.

Mass. Poetry Festival. Lowell, Mass. Oct 2009.

KGB BAR NYC Featured Reader Oct. 2009

Portsmouth Poet Laureate Reading Series Portsmouth, NH Oct.2009

Publishing Panel, New England Poetry Club, April 2009

Publishing Panel, Harvard Alumni Association, April 2009

Publishing Panel, Cape Cod Writer’s Center, August 2008

Lecturer and Reader at the Voices Israel Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition Reading at ZOA HOUSE, Tel Aviv, Israel. I lectured and read from my own work at this annual ceremony. I conducted workshops in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem. December 2007

Host & Organizer, Club Passim Poet's Theatre, "A Celebration of Somerville's Small Presses,” January 2007

Featured Poet, WOMR, Provincetown Radio’s Poet's Corner, May 2007.

Publishing Panel. U/Mass Boston, William Joiner Writers' Workshop, 2007.

Jordan Rich Show. WBZ Radio. Boston, Ma. "The Muses" 2006.

Featured Reader, New England Poetry Club, Harvard University, 2005

Featured Reader, Grolier Poetry Reading Series, Harvard University, 2005

Visiting Poet, Endicott College, 2005

Co-founder, Somerville News Writers Festival. Somerville, Mass. 2003 to 2010.

Featured Reader, Boston National Poetry Festival, Boston Public Library (Copley Square) 2001 to Present.

Workshop Leader, Arts/first: Promising Student Arts Program, Boston, 2002

Featured Reader, Mass. Poetry Society, 2000.

ORGANIZATIONS.

Wellspring House Writers Retreat. Residency. Ashfield, Mass. 2009

Member, Poets Advisory Board for the "Poetry Outreach Project,” Massachusetts Cultural Council) Present - 2006 to Present.

Member, Poets House. New York City, 2005 to 2007

Founding Member, Pushcart Prize Fellowship, 2005.

Bagel Bards. Somerville, Mass. Co-Founder. 2004 to Present

ANTHOLOGIES (PARTIAL LIST)

LAST CALL: The Bukowski Legacy Continues. (Lummox Press) Edited by R.D. Armstrong. 2011.

On the River: The Cambridge Community Poem. Edited by Peter Payack. (Cambridge Arts Council) 2011.

Fresh Grass: 32 Independent Poets (Presa Press) (2010)

City Lights Brockton Poetry Society Brockton, Mass. (2009)

Best of the Boston Literary Magazine (2009)

Wilderness House Literary Review Anthology (ISCS) Press, 2007

Inside the Outside. An Anthology of American Avant-Garde Poets. (Presa Press) 2006

America’s Favorite Poems, Robert Pinsky, Editor (Introduction to Robert Lowell’s “Waking in the Blue") (Norton)

Out of the Blue Writers' Unite (Crooked River Press) 2004.

Greatest Hits: Twelve Years of Compost Magazine. (Zephyr Press)

Bagels with the Bards. (1-5) Anthology. (Ibbetson Street Press) 2006, 2007, 2008.

Chaos Theory (Scars Publications) 2005.

City of Poets: 18 Boston Voices. Contributing editor. (Singing Bone Press, 2000)

PRESS, MEDIA etc... (Partial List)

Dec. 13, 2011. "Editor of Connecticut Review Reads Poetry for Visiting Author Series" by Amy Zylberman. Endicott Observer.( Holder is the director of the Series at Endicott College)

Oct. 16, 2011. The Word On The Street: "A time of total insanity" by Jan Gardner. The Boston Globe. (Article on the Grolier Poetry Room Reading Series co-founded by Holder).

Aug. 4, 2011. "Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish: The Interview."
Interview with Doug Holder. The Bay State Banner.

July 8, 2011. "Checking in with Ibbetson Street Press." by Anita Gray. Fictionaut Blog.

May 2011. "The Write Stuff: English Students Contributing to Local Small Press and Poetry Blog." Endicott College Blog.

Jan 16, 2011. The Boston Globe. "Reinterpreting Shylock" by Jan Gardner.

Sept 26, 2010. The Boston Globe. "Somerville Literary Partnership." by Danielle Dreilinger (Article about the Ibbetson Street Press/Endicott College affiliation)

July 16, 2010. The Jewish Advocate. " Holder hosts Jewish bards of Boston" by Zvi A. Sesling.

June 2010. Shalom Magazine. "Local poetry publisher hones adventurous side in Eretz Yisroel" by Susie Davidson

Dec 6, 2009. The Boston Globe. SHELFLIFE. McLean Poetry. by Jan Gardner. (An article about Holder's course on the poets of McLean Hospital.)

Aug 11, 2009. Boston.Com (Boston Globe Website) "Bagel Bards eat up weekly poetry chats"(Holder is the founder of the literary organization the Bagel Bards)

July, 2009. SHALOMBOSTON.COM "Yiddish, Hot Dogs, and His Father - All Part of Poet Doug Holder's Nostalgia" by Zvi Sesling

April 13, 2008. The Boston Globe, "It's National Poetry Month-- What Are the Poets Doing?"

January 17, 2008. The Somerville Journal, "Hear Israel Voices, O Somerville Bard." by Patricia Wild, Columnist. ( Article on Holder's sponsored trip to Israel for "Voices Israel")

Dec 19, 2007. Jerusalem Post, Visiting Voices, "Visiting Boston Poet Doug Holder will give a reading at ZOA HOUSE, Tel Aviv, December 2007."

April 2004. The Somerville News, "Doug Holder Leads and Reads at Boston Poetry Festival."

February 2003. Jewish Advocate. "Notable Area Jewish Poets Read Work at JP Cemetery."

April 2002. The Jewish Advocate. "New Leader of Newton Library Series: Doug Holder Replaces Robert K. Johnson as Host of Poetry Series."

March 10, 2002. The Boston Globe. "POET'S MONEY-LOSING PRESS HAPPY TO HAVE A BESTSELLER PUBLISHED" by Luba Ostashevsky, Globe Correspondent.

June 2001. Belmont Citizen, " Poets Still Find Inspiration At McLean Hospital."

February 2000. The Boston Globe, "Poetic Healing: As the hospital and its clients changed, counselor Douglas Holder adds another dimension" by Michael Kenney.

August, 1999. Spare Change News, "Doug Holder and the Ibbetson Street Press," Cindy Baron.

AWARDS, etc…

Established a small press collection at the Hale Libray at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. (2011)

Published uder the Ibbetson Street Press imprint the first Boston Poet Laureate's collection of poetry "Dead Beats" by Sam Cornish. (2011)

Producer of the Year Award. Somerville Community Access TV. Award-winning show “Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer.” (2009)

Selected to be Judge of the 2007 Rueben Rose Poetry Award in Israel. This award is presented by the “Voices Israel” organization. Toured Israel; lectured and gave workshops in Jerusalem, Haifa, and Tel Aviv.

Lucid Moon Poetry Award, “Hardest working editor in the small press,” (2003).

Nominated for two Cambridge Poetry Awards, 2003 to 2004.

Co-founder of The Somerville News Writers Festival 2003.

Three collections of poetry Wrestling With My Father, Poems from Boston and Just Beyond, The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel were picks of the month in the Small Press Review..

Poetry listed in the “Index of American Periodical Verse”

State of Maine Writer’s Conference. Poetry Award for poem “Gulls at Daybreak.” (2000)

Nominated for three Pushcart Awards.

Doug Holder Poet

Doug Holder: Curriculum Vitae