Fall Reading Series
Grolier Poetry Book Shop
6 Plympton Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, September 24th
Book Launch
7:00 P.M.
Doug Holder and Tomas O'Leary
Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press.
His work has appeared in The Brooklyn Voice, Everyday Writer, Constellations, Rattle, Boston Literary Review and others. He is the author of The Man in the booth in the Midtown Tunnel, Červená Barva Press (2008), Poems from the Left Bank (Alternating Current-2010) Eating Grief at 3A.M. (Muddy River Books 2013) and several other titles. His latest chap book is Portrait of an Artist As A Young Poseur: 1974 to 1983 (Big Table Publishing Chapbook Series 2015) Holder was a recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Award in 2015. Holder is a Book Review Editor, Wilderness House Literary Review. He lives in Somerville, MA.
Tomas O'Leary is a poet, translator, musician, and expressive therapist. He has published four books of poetry most recently, In the Wellspring of the Ear (Lynx House Press 2015). His other poetry collections are: A Prayer for Everyone, Ilora Press 2012, Fool at the Funeral, and The Devil Take A Crooked House, both from the Lynx House Press. O'Leary's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Midwest Quarterly, Ibbetson Street, Poiesis, The Worcester Review, and others. For the past 15 years he has worked in nursing homes, leading circles of the elderly in song and spirited exchange, and entertains with his accordion at pubs and private parties. He has an M.F.A. in poetry from the writer's workshop, U/Mass/Amherst, and M.A. in expressive therapies from Lesley University. O'Leary was brought up in Somerville, Mass. by Irish immigrant parents and now resides in Cambridge, Mass. with his wife and two sons.
"Holder is a poet of the street and coffee Houses, and observer of the everyday. He sees the world not for what it is, but on his own terms. He is living in the poem rather than the poetry"
--Sam Cornish
Grolier Poetry Book Shop
6 Plympton Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, September 24th
Book Launch
7:00 P.M.
Doug Holder and Tomas O'Leary
Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press.
His work has appeared in The Brooklyn Voice, Everyday Writer, Constellations, Rattle, Boston Literary Review and others. He is the author of The Man in the booth in the Midtown Tunnel, Červená Barva Press (2008), Poems from the Left Bank (Alternating Current-2010) Eating Grief at 3A.M. (Muddy River Books 2013) and several other titles. His latest chap book is Portrait of an Artist As A Young Poseur: 1974 to 1983 (Big Table Publishing Chapbook Series 2015) Holder was a recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Award in 2015. Holder is a Book Review Editor, Wilderness House Literary Review. He lives in Somerville, MA.
Tomas O'Leary is a poet, translator, musician, and expressive therapist. He has published four books of poetry most recently, In the Wellspring of the Ear (Lynx House Press 2015). His other poetry collections are: A Prayer for Everyone, Ilora Press 2012, Fool at the Funeral, and The Devil Take A Crooked House, both from the Lynx House Press. O'Leary's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Midwest Quarterly, Ibbetson Street, Poiesis, The Worcester Review, and others. For the past 15 years he has worked in nursing homes, leading circles of the elderly in song and spirited exchange, and entertains with his accordion at pubs and private parties. He has an M.F.A. in poetry from the writer's workshop, U/Mass/Amherst, and M.A. in expressive therapies from Lesley University. O'Leary was brought up in Somerville, Mass. by Irish immigrant parents and now resides in Cambridge, Mass. with his wife and two sons.
"Holder is a poet of the street and coffee Houses, and observer of the everyday. He sees the world not for what it is, but on his own terms. He is living in the poem rather than the poetry"
--Sam Cornish
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