Since 2002 Doug Holder has been the arts/editor for The Somerville Times...right outside Cambridge, Ma. Holder has written for literary journals, and community newspapers for many years. Some of the interviews he conducted with poets and writers are on video and tape and housed at the Harvard University libraries, as well as other institutions. Holder also founded the Ibbetson Street Press in 1998, in which he has published a literary journal and poetry books for decades. He currently teachers writing at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, and Endicott College in Beverly, Ma. He holds an ALM in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University. The "Doug Holder Papers Collection" is currently being processed at the University at Buffalo, NY. For the past 18 years Holder has been the curator of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series in Newton, MA. Most recently Holder wrote a play with Lawrence Kessenich " The Patient"-- a fictional account based on his experiences as a counselor at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA.
