Last week, Blood+Honey Magazine published “five poems by Scott C. Holstad.” I wanted to announce that, to thank the editors for supporting experimental & political writing/art, for supporting my work & publishing these poems. It’s a batch I’m pretty proud of. I used the cut-up technique virtually exclusively for all five poems & 11 pages and I think Bill Burroughs would approve were he still with us. You can read the poems on their page at Blood+Honey.
I’m going to list the titles just to give you an idea of what sort of awesome chaos you might encounter upon reading the poems.
- fertilize your blackened hatching lying egg codez — [Another Cut-Up Creation]
- you broke your alien — [Another Random Cut-Up Series Creation]
- randi, quick & easy do they travel
- no wonder terrified eyes
- ant1c1Pat!nG V1chy DC‘s deM1ze — [Another Cut-Up Creation]
[Some of these are poems of protest. I feel we’re living in some of the most violent times in recent history & my ideology and strategy feels that violence must be met with violence in such times, so a warning to those easily offended. If you tend to be, you likely will be & it will be intentional because I can think of nothing more offensive than the bullshit taking place every second of every day in the world in which we presently exist. I can find no other way to describe & address such innumerable senseless atrocities & even at that, I couldn’t possibly do full justice as one might wish. Just an FYI for what it’s worth…]

It’s so cool that you continue to get published in so many places!
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Thanks! I keep at it & considering my time & energy limitations, I’ve been doing pretty well the past few years. Last year, I think I had about 180+ separate poems, stories, creative nonfiction pieces, essays & more published in at least 40 different publications, not counting my new book & close to 10 anthologies as well. And I basically had to shut down by Halloween due to health problems leading to multiple surgeries at the end of the year or I’m sure I would have had a record 200+ pieces published last year. (Imagine if I had the time & energy I did back in the days when I was actually prolific! j/k!)
Thanks & I hope you’re doing well.
Cheers! — Scott
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