RAIN AND ROOTS: A Nature & Earth Haiku Anthology

3 Haiku in RAIN AND ROOTS: A Nature & Earth Haiku Anthology

Many thanks to Som, the editor at Fresh Words, for including three of my haiku poems in the newly released book, RAIN AND ROOTS: A Nature & Earth Haiku Anthology. I think this is at least my 3rd Fresh Words haiku anthology & I always enjoy them, enjoy seeing new & familiar names. A paperback …

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3 Poems in The Alien Buddha Talks to Animals anthology

I got my copies of the new anthology, The Alien Buddha Talks to Animals, this week and as ever, the book looks great. It contains three of my poems -- on animals! -- and is a nice change of pace from similar recent anthologies that have published me the past couple of years in that …

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Awesome new miniMAG anthology – Hyper Foreigner

Very excited to get a couple of copies of the awesome new miniMAG #Anthology (176), Hyper Foreigner, with 5 of my poems in it, joining some truly excellent other #writers & #artists. This is 130 pages of kick-ass! Thanks miniMAG! #poetry #minimag #experimentalpoetry @miniMAG_lit pic.twitter.com/X9GbHJF3hv— Scott C. Holstad (@tangledscott) November 19, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Watch Scott C. Holstad read his stirring micro-fiction piece “Rickee’s Transitions” from THRESHOLD: A Micro Fiction Anthology.

          View this post on Instagram                         A post shared by Fresh Words An International Literary Magazine (@freshwordsmagazine) //www.instagram.com/embed.js LINK/URL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP-BpLkEb4R/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Watch Scott C. Holstad read his stirring micro-fiction piece “Rickee’s Transitions” from THRESHOLD: A Micro Fiction Anthology.A Pulitzer-nominated writer …

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Scott Holstad reads Dead Lakes Mini-Fragment & i torment my neighbors (may they rot in hell)

Another new 5-minute video with me reading two of my poems recently published in two anthologies. They're quite different from each other and one of my goals with these new little videos is to try to show some of the diversity in my writing to people who may find some (most? all?) of it interesting. …

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