Poetry

Steven Ford Brown began his career as a journalist in 1973 in Birmingham, Alabama. The same year he created a series of profiles for a local alternative newspaper of American artists and poets that included Diane Arbus, John Beecher, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hugo and Diane Wakoski.

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press of Somerville, Mass and is the arts/editor of The Somerville News. He teaches writing at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. In addition he is the Director of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series, and the co-founder of the Somerville News Writers Festival. He hosts a literary talk show on Somerville Community Acces TV "Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer." Holder's own work: books, interviews, etc...