Our final in-person reading for the year, featuring Doug Holder, will meet at the John Greenleaf Whittier Home in Amesbury. Doug Holder is the co-president of the New England Poetry Club, and the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. For over 20 years he has curated the Newton Free Library Poetry Series. The " Doug Holder Papers Collection" is housed at the University at Buffalo Libraries. Holder is the arts/editor for The Somerville Times and hosted a cable tv show Poet to Poet Writer to Writer—many of the interviews he conducted with poets and writers are archived at U/Mass. Boston, and Harvard University. Holder has been the recipient of a citation from the Massachusetts State Legislature for his work as an editor, publisher, professor, and poet. Holder teaches creative writing at Endicott College, and started the Young Writers Publishing Series there, along with Professor Dan Sklar. Holder's own work has appeared widely, including The Boston Globe, Worcester Review, Home Planet News, Cafe Review, Lilipoh, SoulLit, South Florida Poetry Journal, and many others. He holds a Master of Liberal Arts in English and American Literature and Language  from Harvard University.