Holland Series
Created under Logan House, the Holland Prize originated in 2005 to recognize the best unpublished book of poetry in American English. Larry Holland dedicated much of his life to reading and teaching those poets the world had yet to discover. His passion for honest poetry spoken in an original voice and his disinterest in poets du jour set him apart from most of his contemporaries. As editor of the Elkhorn Review, he sought to publish the best, the brightest, and the freshest. As an essayist, he wrote of the geography that poetry best inhabits. Horseman and outdoors enthusiast, he lived a life full and rich as only the best poetry can be.
by Janet Joyner
Janet Joyner's varied poems include lyrical descriptions of the natural world and draw deft portraits of people and the complicated connections between us. Waterborne is threaded with vivid images...
by Richard Carr
Praise for Lucifer:
Richard Carr's Lucifer is the devil everybody knows. Mick the Bastard and Juliet are frighteningly familiar, too. Lyric reflections on wild, willful abandon, Carr's latest sequence...
by Dan Memmolo
Praise for Fist City:
The love child of Gogol and Walt Whitman, Dan Memmolo writes with the absurdist sensibility of the one and the all-embracing love of the other. Sure, life's silly, say these splendid...
by Samuel Stenger Renken
Now, after more than a few years away from his early home in the Nebraska Sandhills, Sam has put together his first book-length collection of poems, and it pleases me that so many of them, in a variety...
by Robert Cooperman
Praise for My Shtetl:
Open to any poem in Robert Cooperman's My Shtetl and be so delighted you won't want to put the book down. Much more comes alive here than one man's childhood Brooklyn neighborhood,...
by Gary Lark
Praise for Getting By:
These are poems of fierce candor and compassion. In blunt, plain-spoken language, they chronicle a life lived on the fringes: a rural Oregon boyhood and a working life spent...
by Tom C. Hunley
Praise for Octopus:
I don't know if this book, Octopus, has eight arms but it has several: tender but completely unsentimental poems about children and marriage; angry poems and poems of deep...
by Amy McInnis
Cut River explores the natural world as a place mutated by our experiences; sometimes brightened by invention, sometimes dimmed with loss. McInnis's unique experience of growing up female in the U.P.'s...
by Laurelyn Whitt
Laurelyn Whitt's poems have appeared in various journals, including The Spoon River Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, The Malahat Review, and Poetry Canada Review. She is the author of two prize-winning...
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