Valentine's 2026.

A New Picture Post with Much-Needed Updates!

I'm still recovering from several recent surgeries and in fact, things have been going poorly, are very challenging. Complications from one emergency surgery may be leading places I don't want to go but have little choice. I haven't been able to write, post, email, do much of anything and that can be difficult so I …

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Me, reading (from) my 2nd little poetry collection, INDUSTRIAL MADNESS

Me, reading (from) my 2nd little poetry collection, INDUSTRIAL MADNESS, published in 1991 by Sivullinen in Helsinki, Finland. It underwent a 2nd printing a couple of years later by a different Finnish publisher who paired it with a small work by Charles Bukowski in an ombudsman that can be found on FINNA, the Finnish National …

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Scott Holstad talks 1990s Long Beach/L.A. & reads 4 poems featured in The Long Beach Union

US Review of Books: RECOMMENDED REVIEW of Scott C. Holstad's Surviving Immortality Again!

Author Scott Holstad reads dirty realism story, “Premeditated”

Poet, writer & author Scott C. Holstad reads a dirty realism short story titled "Premeditated" that was published in Bristol Noir magazine in August 2025.