Bill Hollands

Thank you! Yes, I stayed for most it. :-)

Bill Hollands | Rattlecast 303 YouTube video by Rattle Poetry

Really enjoyed talking with @timothygreen.bsky.social on @rattlepoetry.bsky.social's excellent Rattlecast podcast last night. Recording available here, if you'd like to watch:
www.youtube.com/live/XHYVzdp...

Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them | ELJ Editions Virtuoso scream queens. Cuckholding cockroaches. Scorned mermaids. Orphaned trapeze artists. Young love. True love. Secret love. Consuming love. Sex, strippers, Stoli, and a severed human hand. A coll...

Virtuoso scream queens. Cuckholding cockroaches. Scorned mermaids. Orphaned trapeze artists. Young love. True love. Secret love. Consuming love. Sex, strippers, Stoli, and a severed human hand. A collection of 22 micros and #flashfiction from @keithjpowell.com to light your fire & break your heart.

Twang | ELJ Editions Set inside a crumbling rural landscape where preachers don’t do as they say and men die by violence, neglect and strange new viruses, the poems in Twang revisit and reconfigure narratives about Appala...

Set inside a crumbling rural landscape where preachers don’t do as they say and men die by violence, neglect, and strange new viruses, @benkline.bsky.social revisits and reconfigures narratives about Appalachia and the AIDS Crisis years of the 1980s and early 1990s. #poetry

Make a Wish | ELJ Editions If you could have one wish granted, would you ask for another? Make a Wish would. Childhood cancer, the aftermath of divorce, sexual violence, and a teenage girl’s disappearance haunt these poems, whi...

"If you could have one wish granted, would you ask for another? Make a Wish would. Childhood cancer, the aftermath of divorce, sexual violence, and a teenage girl’s disappearance haunt Sarah E. Azizi's poems, while desire and love and the sweetness of mornings triumph."

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Thanks, Heather!

Mangrove | ELJ Editions Bill Hollands’s debut poetry collection Mangrove takes the reader on a journey from denial and shame to acceptance and love. In poems both narrative and lyric, comic and tragic, accessible and multila...

Mangrove takes the reader on a journey from denial and shame to acceptance and love. In poems, narrative and lyric, comic and tragic, accessible and multilayered, @billhollands.bsky.social explores growing up gay in the late twentieth century, dealing with grief, and creating a family of one’s own.

Very happy to be holding my book in my hands. Thanks to everyone who supported me on my journey back to poetry, particularly my husband and son. You can order it here, if you're so inclined:
elj-editions.com/mangrove/

A postcard for Night 1 of the 2025 Jack Straw May Reading Series. Headshots of Bill Hollands, Asha Dore, Jenny Harrington Lill, and Sigrun Susan Lane are in the center.

The first night of our May Reading Series is coming up. Stop by in person or visit us on Facebook or YouTube to hear the 2025 Jack Straw Writing Fellows read!

Friday, May 2, 7pm: @billhollands.bsky.social, Asha Dore, Jenny Harrington Lill, Sigrun Susan Lane

Curator @alqalaqat.bsky.social

The 2025 edition of the Jack Straw Writers Anthology.

This year's edition of the Jack Straw Writers Anthology is now available for sale @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social. Make sure to pick up a copy!

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Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter Bill Hollands. Text is “A measure of success: that it ends in time."

Here's a peek at #JackStrawWriter Bill Hollands' poetry ahead of his reading on May 2nd. Swing by and hear more!

Empty Nest Triolet

A measure of success:
that it ends
in time. Unless
I measure success
in days. Hours? Less
but I pretend.
A measure of success,
that. It ends.

I'm kind of taking a break from social media, so I'm not sure anyone will see this, but...my book is now available to pre-order: elj-editions.com/mangrove/. Endorsements from Denise Duhamel, Ellen Bass, and David Trinidad in the comments below. Thanks!

Memory Sonnet: A Sonnet by Bill Hollands - Identity Theory A dream within a dream within a dream— was that what it was like?

"A dream within a dream within a dream—
was that what it was like?"

Read this week's sonnet: "Memory Sonnet" by Bill Hollands