Happy Birthday, Gretchen!

On April 15, 2025 By Scott HolstadIn My Family

I just want to wish my wonderful, lovely, smart, tough, talented & awesome partner & wife, Gretchen, a wonderful birthday today! How about a couple of semi-recent photos of us together, eh?

Happy Birthday to my Incredible Wife, Gretchen!

On April 16, 2023May 29, 2023 By Scott HolstadIn My Family, personal, pics1 Comment

Before I begin, I have to acknowledge today's date is April 16, 2023, yet my wife's birthday is April 15! So apologies are in order for being a tad late, though there have been many valid reasons and I actually have been working on this for awhile now. I've tried to do some unique things, …

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An Asheville Vacation – Photos

On September 3, 2019May 29, 2023 By Scott HolstadIn personal, pics2 Comments

Hi. We rarely get to take vacations and especially with my health disintegrating over the past year and a half especially, let alone the past four plus years, it's just very hard for me to travel. I mean physically painful. But we had a chance to take a few days and go somewhere and we …

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Happy Birthday G!

On April 15, 2018November 9, 2022 By Scott HolstadIn My Family, personal4 Comments

I just want to say Happy Birthday to my sweet, wonderful, amazing, beautiful, intelligent, and talented wife, Gretchen. I'm going to try to make this the best day you've had in a long time. You are my world and I love you more than you can possibly know. I'm so grateful for you and that …

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A Great New Food Blog

On March 26, 2018November 6, 2022 By Scott HolstadIn Culture/Commentary, personal

Hi! This is a bit of a plug, so please forgive me, but my wife, Gretchen, has started a new food blog called "Vital Vittles - Food Trends: culinary finds for foodies," and I think I lot of people who are "foodies" or into food and/or cooking might enjoy it. In case that link didn't …

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Scott Holstad

Author/editor of 65-75 books, more anthologies, textbooks, books attributed to me, rumored to be published, ghostwritten books, broadsides, art/text collaborations + adding dozens of technical/scientific books I wrote in a professional capacity for various companies ... closer to 150 books in my life! BUT... I'm more than just that. A polymath, I've always had far too many interests so in addition to writing/editing/publishing, I've studied and worked in network engineering, law, teaching, systems engineering, counseling, vinyl, science, computer science, foreign policy, religion, history, E/SE Asia, security, national defense, neuroscience, think tanks, contingency planning, analysis. I tell people I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little. Married to a wonderful woman, one little cat, moved close to 35 times, now an old curmudgeon who still loves hockey.

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My first poetry collection, Street Poems (1991)
Industrial Madness, published in Helsinki Finland in 1991
Junction City (1993) -- "Highly Recommended!" Wormwood Review Vol. 135
Cells (2004), my biggest book at 210 pages
Directory of American Poetry Books (Poets House). Scott C. Holstad's first book, Street Poems (mulberry press), is listed.
Photo of Scott C. Holstad in Higher Ground Magazine
Journal of Kentucky Studies Vol 16, 1999, containing Scott C. Holstad's critical article "Austen's Sense and Sensibility: Inscribed Silence"
Professor Hua GUO publishes at a prolific rate and has referenced and cited research by Scott C. Holstad in a number of papers
Ray's Road Review Summer 2016 Website Header
Back cover of SHADOWS BEFORE THE MAIMING by Scott C. Holstad
Long Shot 18, the legendary journal that published the very best. Please note Tables of Contents. Top: Yoko Ono, Bottom: Me. Cause I'm obviously at that same level of talent and fame. LOL! Thanks Danny!
4 issues of Caffeine Magazine, the biggest poetry mag of the '90s (circulation & the hippest & baddest!)
Short Fuse no 49, 1991. Scott Holstad, Exene Cervenka (punk band X) & Viggo Mortensen (LOTR trilogy superstar)
William Burrough's classic NAKED LUNCH he autographed for me in 1993, one of several books he signed for me over the years. This is one of my most treasured possessions.
Scott C. Holstad with 3 poems in The Poetry Ireland Review No. 42, 1994, as indexed by JSTOR
Headshot of Scott C. Holstad inside PLACES, his 1996 Pulitzer-nominated book of poems
Beat legend Diane di Prima's classic Memoirs of a Beatnik, autographed for Scott C. Holstad
A Coney Island of the Mind autographed to and for Scott Holstad by Ferlinghetti himself
Solinar issue 71, 1993. Finnish alt publication featuring poetry by Scott C. Holstad
A postcard/ArtCard published in Finland featuring 2 Scott C. Holstad poems, illustrated by Jouni Waarakangas
A Christmas ArtPostCard Collaboration: "xmas telegram"
AIM 18, 1992
Caffeine Magazine Issue 9 with fan mail for Scott C. Holstad
The Kerouac Connection 24, 1992
Heat City Literary Review Vol. 2. with flash fiction by Scott C. Holstad
Spent time buying & selling vinyl for awhile. Also audiophile components, as well as writing articles on things from styli to monitors to preamps to ceramic platters, etc. Good times.
NewPages review of The Best of the Asheville Poetry Review (2004) featuring a small section praising Scott C. Holstad for his essay defending Carl Sandburg from the critics
Australian Naval Review 2021 Issue 2, published by the Australian Naval Institute, where Professor Scott Holstad MFA, MA is a Full Member
Folding@Home Certificate for TeamScott "folding" 11,000 workunits (of proteins) in a huge project to find cures for specific diseases
G and I at a Pens hockey game in Nashville in 2016. The Pens won!
One of my "grammar nazi" shirts. Used to be funny but now people don't seem to have a sense of humor.
Excerpt of "outside" by Scott C. Holstad
Scott C. Holstad & Chris Duncan, Poetry & Fiction editors for Ray's Road Review, in Atlanta, 2012. I was at RRR for over 6 years & we had some great issues & published some world class writers & artists. Good times.
Back cover of Scott Holstad's Never-Ending Cigarettes featuring some impressive plugs
Processed World vol. 30, Processed World Collective, 1992
CyberPsychos AOD vol. 7 1997
Unlikely Stories Presents Scott Holstad, Circa 2000
Charles Manson issue of Twisted Savage
My autographed copy of Bukowski's Mocking Wish Me Luck
Bukowski's Most Beautiful Woman in Town, which he autographed for and to Scott Holstad
Bukowski autographed my very favorite book of his poetry for me, always to be treasured