Amy Holman

Amy Holman is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet and a literary consultant. Her collection, Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window was described by one reviewer as “part freak show, part searing insight”. She is also the author of four poetry chapbooks, including the prizewinning Wait For Me, I’m Gone, from Dream Horse Press. Her poems have been in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Archaeology Magazine, American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Failbetter, The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly, Gargoyle, Poet Lore, The Potomac Review, Rabbit Ears: The First Anthology of TV Poems, and The Best American Poetry 1999. She teaches poetry workshops at The Hudson Valley Writers Center.

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American Poetry Today

Saturday, November 18th, 2017 at 2:30pm

Past Event

The American poet Ezra Pound proclaimed that “Poetry is news that stays news!” On a different note, his contemporary William Carlos Williams said that “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.” Do modernist maxims such as… read more »