I Have 3 Haiku in the new Urban Haiku Anthology: The City In Three Lines

THE CITY IN THREE LINES: An Urban Haiku Anthology has just been published with three of my own haiku poems in it. Fresh Words is behind this one and like I said in another recent post, that outfit's been upping its game this year. Various anthology themes/topics have been really creative and I always look …

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I Have a Story in the new TINY REVOLUTIONS Anthology!

Those of you familiar with some of my typical stories in the noir and horror realms might not be expecting the flash story I have appearing in the new Tiny Revolutions: A Flash Fiction Anthology, released less than two weeks ago by Fresh Words, which has really been upping its game this year. Anyone who …

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The Rang Yan Review -- debut cover

The Esteemed Rang Yan Review published “Cosmic Looping”

The Rang Yan Review is new and already badass! Their intro to their About section reads: The Rang Yan Review is an independent literary and philosophical journal devoted to critical thought, humanist culture, and the life of language. Their Editor-In-Chief, Aleksey Porvin, is both legendary and badass too. And a pretty cool individual. Who was …

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The Beatnik Cowboy Publishes “I Do Not Have a Master of Divinity Degree – Redux”

Many thanks to the kind editors at The Beatnik Cowboy for recently publishing my poem, "I Do Not Have a Master of Divinity Degree – Redux." I'm posting a screenshot of the header and top part of the poem. You'll have to go to the site to read all of it. Thanks!

My “Conversations With AIs”

If you haven't noticed the new tab in the menu running across the top of this website titled Holstad — Conversations With AIs, consider checking it out. I've had a lot of downtime this year because of injuries, post-op complications and a host of other horrors, and while that hasn't eliminated all of my various obligations, …

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