Publication History

October 2025 publication of Rust and Slag, chapbook from Moonstone Press, available directly from the publisher: https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/holland-ken-rust-and-slag/SWPIKEVXEOQ5TUF5OAIKEAS7?cs=true&cst=custom

FORTHCOMING

“Caribou Bones,” “Sorry,”, “A Child Gone,” “The Unified Theory of Truth”, “All I’m Asking”–Adelaide Literary Magazine

“Breach”–West Trade Review

“What Is and Is Not”–Poetry South

“Habana”–Sheila-Na-Gig

“A Crow’s-Eye View”–Midway Journal

“Not Fibonacci”–The Tusculum Review

“A Poem That’s Better by Half”–The Shore

“Magnetic Charm”–Pigeon Pages

“Before the Storm”–Nine Mile Magazine

“Before the Fall,” “Life Is Good,” “On the Seventh Day They Say God Rested,” “Tornado Love,” “Major Minor”–Adelaide Literary Magazine

“Midsummer Night”–Midwest Quarterly

“Stealth”–Slipstream

“Jack Be Nimble”, “Brainstorm”–Talking River Review

“Terminal Velocity”–The South Carolina Review

“After a Seascape”, “The Random Spillage of Love”–The Cafe Review

MOST RECENTLY PUBLISHED

“Soho in the Rain”–Bicoastal Review

“On Mercy”–Cumberland River Review

“Miracles”–I-70 Review

“Sepia Life”–Bicoastal Review (2025 contest finalist)

“The Tell”–Gyroscope Review

“Borders” and “Obsolescent”–Schuylkill Valley Journal

“Madrilenos” and “The Marketplace of Ruins”–Mediterranean Poetry

“Cinema Verite”–Lake Effect: An International Literary Journal

“Robert Johnson Calls the Blues”–BoomerLitMag

“Encoded”–Atlanta Review

” Bourgeoise Revolution”, “Skirling”, “Bitches of War”–Stone Poetry Quarterly

“How Quiet the Words”–The Pedestal Magazine

“High Tide and Full Moon in Paradise”–New Ohio Review

“Missing You More When I Say I’m Not Missing You”–San Pedro River Review

“Wrecks”–Sky Island Journal

“An Old Wives’ Tale,” “A Little Dustup,” “Dancing Possibilities,” “This Will Only Take a Moment,” “Bon Mot”–Lothlorien Poetry Journal

“Birthright” and “Spin Cycle”–Main Street Rag

“What the Dog Did”–Tar River Poetry

“Elephant Grass”–The Comstock Review

“Winter Wood” and “Hawkish”–Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Ar

“Exposure”–“Shot Glass Journal”

“Receding”–Lightwood

“As if Dreams Had Any Meaning at All”, “The Boy Who Eats Black Soil,” “The Voice of Her Name”–Poetry X Hunger

“What We Created When We Created the Brilliant Sky”–Canary, A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis

“Haunts of the Barely Heard,” “The Age of Winter,” and “Specters”–Lightwood

“Heat” and “Vibrato”–Kennings Artistic and Literary Journal

“Beck and Call”–Catamaran Literary Reader

“Mirrored Dance Between,” “Wherefore I Say This to You”, “Singing Into the Void”–Teesta Review (India)

“AC/DC”–Avalon Literary Review

“Ellipsis” and “Breaking and Entering”–Noon: Journal of the Short Poem

“Terracotta,” “The Calliope of Silence”, and “The Fool”–The Galway Review

“The Kiss” and “Mind Out of Time”–Innisfree Poetry Journal

“Evolution”–Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art

“Pull the Visible World” and “Whale Oil and the Comedian”–MIdwest Quarterly

“Flight”–The Alembic

“Fortune Favors the Forgetful” and “Sifting”–Good River Review

“Lucidity” and “Betwixt and Between”–New Ohio Review. “Lucidity” was selected by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2022 New Ohio Review poetry contest.

“The Glistening Edge of What Remains”–California Quarterly

“Birds and Their Lack of Conviction” and “In It for the Long Haul”–Third Wednesday: A Quarterly Journal of Literary & Visual Arts”

“All I’ll Never Know”, “No Bones About It”, “Shelf Life”, “Entomology”, “Covid Guidelines”, “How Perfect the Imperfection”–Adelaide Literary Magazine

“The Mathematical Heart of Darkness”, “On Beauty”, “Dreams of Being Anyone at All”, “Thoughtless”, and “Song of Songs”–Tupelo Quarterly

“Neutrinos”–Redactions: Poetics & Poetry

“When Stella D’oro Ruled the Airwaves”–Fourth River

“The Poetry of Lunacy”–Lightwood

“All the Pretty Girls”–The MacGuffin

“Hurdy Gurdy”–Red Rock Review

“Shoulder to Shoulder”–North Dakota Quarterly

“Passages”–North Dakota Quarterly

“Fallen Wings”–Lightwood

“Mother Knows”–Crosswinds Poetry Journal

“Heartless”–Tar River Poetry

“Bust Out the Blueberries”–Sugar House Review

“Boom Times at the Shake Shanty”–Sugar House Review

“Home”–Sugar House Review

“Strangers and Other Friends”–Plainsongs

“Taps”–The American Journal of Poetry

“Kill Zone”–The American Journal of Poetry

“Tales from Four Seasons”–Catamaran Literary Reader

“An Interrupted Treatise on Domestic Tranquility”–The Louisville Review

“Rapture”–The Louisville Review

“The Pageant of Summer Rain”–Crosswinds Poetry Journal

“Uprising”–Main Street Rag

“Iron and Air”–Pinyon

“Slag”–San Pedro River Review

“Take a Knee”–South Florida Poetry Journal