Well, I guess this will be my first "rant" of my new blog. Maybe not a rant, but instead just a bitching session.... I've just finally got to speak up about a topic I first noticed popping up online here several years ago, and I've seen this topic and this issue and these people I'm …
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Hey poetry lovers: the literary publication for which I am the poetry editor -- Ray's Road Review -- has just published several poems by noted poet and author, Clifton Snider. Very glad to have him on board. Please go check his poems out at: http://raysroadreview.com/poetry-2/clifton-snidor/ and while there, read Val Nieman's poems in the current …
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20 Questions Delete my answers and substitute your own. Enjoy! I've come to realize that... I have taken far too many things for granted in my life, even when I thought I was not doing that. It’s a tragedy & I’m trying to remedy that. Reconciliation is… ideal, but not always realistic. This is exactly …
Today I created and published a new themed tab -- a WordPress "Page" -- that I titled MY BOOKS - CRAZY PRICES. This page is about what I found some of my old published but now out of print books are selling for online, on places like Amazon and Alibris. I was surprised to a …
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Just because I want to kick start this blog off and get some content out there, and even though I've got some topics in mind I want to write about, my time is quite limited these days, so this post will actually be stolen from an Amazon.com list I put together earlier this year. I …
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I made a list of my 15 books of poetry I've had published over the years for this new blog. Just for the heck of it. Well, it's all good to see titles and publishers and dates and so on, but I don't know about you, but I'm always curious about more details -- the …
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Hi there! My name is Scott Holstad. I’ve been blogging on Xanga since February 2004, and while I am still there, I have decided to try a new, different blog over here on WordPress. Let’s see … what should I say about myself? I was born in Boston and have lived in several states and …
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