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A collection of my interviews that for the most part appeared in The Somerville News will be out from the Ibbetson Street Press next month. ( Feb. 2009). Caitlin Jackson, an intern from the Connecticut College, edited the collection, and Steve Glines designed it. This will be Volume 1 ... I plan to to do a second volume in late 2009...if the good lord is willing and the creek don't rise...



--Doug Holder

 

 

From the introduction by Mike Basinski, PhD  Curator of the Rare Book and Poetry Collection at University of Buffalo, NY.

 

Welcome to the Neighborhood 
 

       Within the realm of the poem are communities in which constellations of poets reside with their poems, and their journeys and influences, books, poetics and colleagues, and where they were born and where they work, and the color of their dogs, cats and washing machines. Of course, individual poets have individual lives and spheres. However, in order for their poetry to expansively thrive and develop, there must be a place for them to do so. There has to be a place for poets to be poets, which is to say people. I liken these locals to networks of waterways where the wandering flocks gather to honk in delight or where the frogs congregate to engage their necessary singing. Without these vast neighborhoods of mind there would be no poetry. For communities of creativity to form and function, we, the poets, need to know who we are. This book is the imagination's welcome wagon. Hello.





Below is the title and the list of interviews....













From the Paris of New England: Interviews with Poets and Writers








With Doug Holder

Special Thanks To:



Donald and Jamie Norton, Biil Tauro (The Somerville News) Wendy Blom (Somerville Community Access TV), Steve Gilnes (ISCS Press), Caitlin Jackson, Mike Basinki (Buffalo University Libraries).







Table of Contents

 

Eva Salzman…………………………………………………………………7

Mike Basinski………………………………………………………………...10

Errol Uys…………………………………………………………………….13

Lan Samantha Chang………………………………………………………..16

Louisa Solano………………………………………………………………..18

Miriam Levine……………………………………………………………….20

Mark Doty…………………………………………………………………...23

Claire Messud………………………………………………………………..28

Lisa Beatman…………………………………………………………………30

Martha Collins………………………………………………………………..32

Dick Lourie…………………………………………………………………35

Robert Creeley…………………………………………………………………38

Afaa Michael Weaver…………………………………………………………40

Jack Powers………………………………………………………………...42

Ed Sanders…………………………………………………………………..45

Tom Perrotta…………………………………………………………………48

Diana Der-Hovanessian………………………………………………………50

Luke Salisbury…………………………………………………………………52

Sarah Hannah…………………………………………………………………55

Hugh Fox……………………………………………………………………...57



Lo Galluccio…………………………………………………………………60



Timothy Gager……………………………………………………………….63



Gloria Mindock…………………………………………………………66



Marc Widershien…………………………………………………………67



Deborah M. Priestly………………………………………………………71



Steve Almond…………………………………………………………….73



Pagan Kennedy


Robert K.Johnson

Harris Gardner

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