Links

PLEASE NOTE: TO OPEN LINK, RIGHT CLICK ON LINK, SELECT “OPEN IN A NEW TAB”, AND THE NEW TAB WILL OPEN AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN WITH THE CONTENT.

“On Mercy”, Cumberland River Review, Fall 2025 http://crr.trevecca.edu/article/on-mercy

“Breach”, West Trade Review, Fall 2025 (YouTube) https://youtu.be/BDtEae73eMg

“Breach,” West Trade Review, Fall 2025 https://westtradereview.com/onlineexclusiveF25Holland.html

“Sepia Life”, Bicoastal Review (2025 contest finalist) https://www.bicoastalreview.com/kenholland

“A Poem That’s Better by Half”, The Shore, June 2025, https://www.theshorepoetry.org/ken-holland-a-poem-thats-better-by-half

“Madrilenos” and “The Marketplace of Ruins”, Mediterranean Poetry, June 2025 https://www.odyssey.pm/contributors/ken-holland/

“Robert Johnson Calls the Blues”, BoomerLit Mag, May 2025 https://boomerlitmag.com/ken-holland-2/

“Before the Storm”, Nine Mile Magazine, Spring 2025 https://www.ninemile.org/spring-2025-section-1

“The Tell”, Gyroscope Review, Spring 2025 https://www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-Spring-Issue-web.pdf

“How Quiet the Words”, Pedestal Magazine, April 2025 https://thepedestalmagazine.com/ken-holland-how-quiet-the-words/

“Bitches of War”, “Bourgeois Revolution,” “Skirling”, Stone Poetry Quarterly https://stonepoetryjournal.com/ken-holland/

“An Old Wives’ Tale,” “A Little Dustup,” “Dancing Possibilities,” “This Will Only Take a Moment,” “Bon Mot”, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, December 2024 https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/

“Life is Good,” “On the Seventh Day They Say God Rested,” “Tornado Love”, “Major Minor”, “Before the Fall”, Adelaide Literary Magazine, June 2024 https://adelaidebooks.org/life-is-good

“What We Created When We Created the Brilliant Sky,”, Canary, A LIterary Journal of the Environmental Crisis, June 2024 https://canarylitmag.org/contents.php#1366

“Exposure”, Shot Glass Journal, May 2024 https://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/ken_holland1.html

“Fortune Favors the Forgetful” and “Sifting”, Good River Review https://www.goodriverreview.com/post/two-poems-holland

“The Kiss” and “Mind out of Time” https://www.innisfreepoetry.org/innisfree-37/ken-holland/

“Terracotta”, “The Calliope of Silence,” and “The Fool”, The Galway Review https://thegalwayreview.com/2023/09/03/ken-holland-three-poems/

“Lucidity” (winner of the 2022 New Ohio Review contest) and “Betwixt and Between”, New Ohio Review https://newohioreview.org/?s=ken+holland&submit=

“Birds and Their Lack of Conviction” and “In It for the Long Haul”, Third Wednesday https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2023/01/01/two-poems-by-ken-holland/

“No Bones About It”, “Shelf Life”, “Entomology”, “Covid Guidelines”, “How Perfect the Imperfection”, Adelaide Literary Magazine http://adelaidemagazine.org/2022/11/23/no-bones-about-it-by-ken-holland/

“The Mathematical Heart of Darkness”, “On Beauty”, “Dreams of Being Anyone at All”, “Thoughtless”, and “Song of Songs”, Tupelo Quarterly https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/a-folio-of-poetry-by-ken-holland/ (NOTE: When the page comes up, place cursor at the bottom of the page of the poem, a navigation bar will appear that allows you to select additional poems to read)

“When Stella D’oro Ruled the Airwaves” and “On Whatever Day in Whatever Summer of Nineteen Sixty Something”, The Fourth River https://www.thefourthriver.com/o12-content/2022/4/27/when-stella-doro-on-whatever-day

“Kill Zone” and “Taps”, The American Journal of Poetry http://theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v11-holland.html

“Poetry”, Lightwood https://lightwoodpress.com/2020/12/18/poetry-a-poem-by-ken-holland/

“Falling Awake”, Shot Glass Journal http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/ken_holland1.html

“Last Call”, “Rigor Mortis Road”, and “The River’s Caught Fire”, Roanoke Review http://www.roanokereview.org/ken-holland/2017

Greenkill Gallery YouTube reading, August 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m911dgsqL_w

“A Night, Like So Many Others”, The Cortland Review (including audio) https://archive.cortlandreview.org/issue/73/holland.php

“Emily on Tuesday,” Rattle (including audio) https://www.rattle.com/emily-on-tuesday-by-ken-holland/

“Sink Hole,” Valparaiso Poetry Review https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2018/05/21/ken-holland-sink-hole/