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Bill Hollands @billhollands.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hi. I’m starting a quarterly-ish newsletter to keep interested folks updated on my latest poetry news (recent publications, etc.) and share a few thoughts about poetry in general (what I’m reading, etc.). Here's the link if you'd like to subscribe, and thanks! ~Bill buttondown.com/billhollands...

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Bill's Poetry News

Hi there. I’m starting a quarterly(ish) newsletter to keep interested folks updated on my latest poetry news (recent publications, reviews, interviews, upcoming readings). In each issue I’ll also shar...

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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 13/12/2025

Jack Straw Writers at SoulFood Poetry Thursday, December 18, 6pm SoulFood Poetry Night SoulFood CoffeeHouse, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond FREE @billhollands.bsky.social, @nhattnichols.bsky.social, and @connorwatkinsxu.bsky.social join this long-running reading series, in our last reading of 2025.

Left to right: Connor Watkins-Xu standing at a podium, Nhatt Nichols standing in front of a microphone and wearing headphones, Bill Hollands standing at a podium.

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

"Hollands’s poetry also teems with references to the famous faces of his youth, all while he explores those personal memories...Mangrove is a moving reflection on a queer life lived to the fullest." @newohioreview.bsky.social on @billhollands.bsky.social's exception new collection!

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New Ohio Review

Review: Bill Hollands’ Mangrove By Evan Green Bill Hollands’s debut collection, Mangrove (published by ELJ Editions, 2025), takes readers through poems of nostalgia, grief, and family, primarily se…

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Congratulations to @billhollands.bsky.social, whose collection "Mangrove" is a finalist for the Last Syllable Book Award! "Mangrove" is a stunning poetry collection that takes the reader on a journey from denial and shame to acceptance and love. Check it out today! (bit.ly/3VZGzd5)

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Bill Hollands @billhollands.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Really enjoyed talking with @timothygreen.bsky.social on @rattlepoetry.bsky.social's excellent Rattlecast podcast last night. Recording available here, if you'd like to watch: www.youtube.com/live/XHYVzdp...

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Bill Hollands | Rattlecast 303

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Virtuoso scream queens. Cuckholding cockroaches. Scorned mermaids. Orphaned trapeze artists. Young love. True love. Secret love. Consuming love. Sex, strippers, Stoli, and a severed human hand. A collection of 22 micros and #flashfiction from @keithjpowell.com to light your fire & break your heart.

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Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them | ELJ Editions

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Set inside a crumbling rural landscape where preachers don’t do as they say and men die by violence, neglect, and strange new viruses, @benkline.bsky.social revisits and reconfigures narratives about Appalachia and the AIDS Crisis years of the 1980s and early 1990s. #poetry

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Twang | ELJ Editions

Set inside a crumbling rural landscape where preachers don’t do as they say and men die by violence, neglect and strange new viruses, the poems in Twang revisit and reconfigure narratives about Appala...

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"If you could have one wish granted, would you ask for another? Make a Wish would. Childhood cancer, the aftermath of divorce, sexual violence, and a teenage girl’s disappearance haunt Sarah E. Azizi's poems, while desire and love and the sweetness of mornings triumph." Order your copy today!

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Make a Wish | ELJ Editions

If you could have one wish granted, would you ask for another? Make a Wish would. Childhood cancer, the aftermath of divorce, sexual violence, and a teenage girl’s disappearance haunt these poems, whi...

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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Mangrove takes the reader on a journey from denial and shame to acceptance and love. In poems, narrative and lyric, comic and tragic, accessible and multilayered, @billhollands.bsky.social explores growing up gay in the late twentieth century, dealing with grief, and creating a family of one’s own.

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Mangrove | ELJ Editions

Bill Hollands’s debut poetry collection Mangrove takes the reader on a journey from denial and shame to acceptance and love. In poems both narrative and lyric, comic and tragic, accessible and multila...

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Bill Hollands @billhollands.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Very happy to be holding my book in my hands. Thanks to everyone who supported me on my journey back to poetry, particularly my husband and son. You can order it here, if you're so inclined: elj-editions.com/mangrove/

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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 28/04/2025

The first night of our May Reading Series is coming up. Stop by in person or visit us on Facebook or YouTube to hear the 2025 Jack Straw Writing Fellows read! Friday, May 2, 7pm: @billhollands.bsky.social, Asha Dore, Jenny Harrington Lill, Sigrun Susan Lane Curator @alqalaqat.bsky.social

A postcard for Night 1 of the 2025 Jack Straw May Reading Series. Headshots of Bill Hollands, Asha Dore, Jenny Harrington Lill, and Sigrun Susan Lane are in the center.

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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 25/04/2025

This year's edition of the Jack Straw Writers Anthology is now available for sale @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social. Make sure to pick up a copy! bit.ly/4jJ91tJ #JackStrawWriters #JackStrawWriters2025

The 2025 edition of the Jack Straw Writers Anthology.

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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 18/04/2025

Here's a peek at #JackStrawWriter Bill Hollands' poetry ahead of his reading on May 2nd. Swing by and hear more! Empty Nest Triolet A measure of success: that it ends in time. Unless I measure success in days. Hours? Less but I pretend. A measure of success, that. It ends.

Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter Bill Hollands. Text is “A measure of success: that it ends in time."

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Bill Hollands @billhollands.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I'm kind of taking a break from social media, so I'm not sure anyone will see this, but...my book is now available to pre-order: elj-editions.com/mangrove/. Endorsements from Denise Duhamel, Ellen Bass, and David Trinidad in the comments below. Thanks!

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Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

"A dream within a dream within a dream— was that what it was like?" Read this week's sonnet: "Memory Sonnet" by Bill Hollands

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Memory Sonnet: A Sonnet by Bill Hollands - Identity Theory

A dream within a dream within a dream— was that what it was like?

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