Prolific author and poet Holstad has…continued to maintain his somewhat cult-favorite status as the dark troubadour of the rebellious underbelly of contemporary American poetry. Much of this poetry can be instantly and favorably compared to the poems of Bukowski or some of the messier-around-the-edges work of particular beat poet extraordinaires, such as Kerouac and Burroughs. …
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KIRKUS REVIEWS reviews Scott C. Holstad’s SURVIVING IMMORTALITY AGAIN
A raw poetry collection with an unrelentingly bleak point of view. Holstad combines character studies with dark inner monologues… the poet effectively blends brutality with compassion..”. Holstad excels at visceral descriptions, like that of Bianca, who had “so many track / marks, it looked like a / river of small lakes on / her torn …
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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
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2 new haiQu experiments published on haiQu.fOO
Things are rocking at haiQu fOO! Some good hard edged, creative, unique haiQu experiments are getting published there and I've been lucky enough to have some of mine appearing every month for the past few months. I've told you and posted about that publication/site before and the editor is at a place where he's now …
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