Misfit Issue 42, Summer 2026

Misfit Magazine Issue 42 has been released with two of my poems and a review of my last book!

MISFIT Issue 42 was published this week and it is editor Alan Catlin's final issue as he's finally going to retire. He insisted in going out with a bang, as the issue is packed with badass stuff and includes many great contributors such as Tony Gloeggler, David Chorlton, Damon Hubbs, Juliet Cook, Jeffrey Zable, Charles …

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Me, reading (from) my 2nd little poetry collection, INDUSTRIAL MADNESS

Me, reading (from) my 2nd little poetry collection, INDUSTRIAL MADNESS, published in 1991 by Sivullinen in Helsinki, Finland. It underwent a 2nd printing a couple of years later by a different Finnish publisher who paired it with a small work by Charles Bukowski in an ombudsman that can be found on FINNA, the Finnish National …

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Scott Holstad talks 1990s Long Beach/L.A. & reads 4 poems featured in The Long Beach Union

US Review of Books: RECOMMENDED REVIEW of Scott C. Holstad's Surviving Immortality Again!

An Instagram Update

Some of you who've been with me for a long time may recall I had an active Instagram account a LONG time ago, and that it was largely music-focused, particularly my love for vinyl. I mention this to explain an otherwise odd-seeming account name, because I resurrected the account but have refocused it on my …

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RIP, Neeli Cherkovski

Story from the New York Times: Neeli Cherkovski, Poet Who Chronicled the Beat Generation, Dies at 78. Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski by Neeli Cherkovski Cherkovski was well-liked by many people, unless one included many mainstream press book reviewers. (I write that last comment more as a reflection of my memories some 25-30 years …

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