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Fixator Press Publishes “The Blood Soaks Into the Dust in Minutes”

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https://fixatorpress.home.blog/2026/07/28/the-blood-soaks-into-the-dust-in-minutes-by-scott-c-holstad/?page_id=3708 Thank you to Fixator Press for publishing one of my protest poems this past week. This is "The Blood Soaks Into the Dust in Minutes." I've been writing and publishing protest, political, social justice, pissed off poems for over 35 years and as for those I've been writing the past couple of years, I …

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IT’S HERE! Release Day for SURVIVING IMMORTALITY AGAIN!

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Today is October 15, 2025, and that means my new book of poems, SURVIVING IMMORTALITY AGAIN, has been released by Alien Buddha Press and is available for purchase in print paperback from Amazon and it's also now listed on Goodreads. This is exciting to me for many reasons, one of which is this is the …

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“Scott C. Holstad reads from Surviving Immortality Again” video

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Surviving Immortality Again envisions a modern Prometheus destined for a dystopian future mired in an inescapable earthly present for eternity. In support of my first new book of poems to be published in many years, I've created and posted a video discussing Surviving Immortality Again and reading some selections from it. Shorter than 25 minutes, it …

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Nancy Elizabeth Lipscomb Holstad Obit - Knoxville News-Sentinel - 08-06-24

One Year Anniversary Today. RIP Mom.

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My mother, Nancy Elizabeth Page Lipscomb Holstad, died one year ago today on August 5, 2024 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her funeral took place on August 11, several days later. Despite being nearly a century old, it was a bit of a shock as she lived alone in her own condo, had been slowing down but …

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Newly Published in Bristol Noir Magazine: “Once, the Meek Died Young!”

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Bristol Noir Magazine: Scott C. Holstad's "Once, the Meek Died Young" I have a long new poem titled "Once, the Meek Died Young" up today in the March 10, 2025 issue of Bristol Noir: Curiously Dark Fiction. I think this may be the 5th piece of mine they've published in the past year and I'm …

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