A winner! My poem, “Capturing the Scent of Rain” (from No Such Thing as Distance), won the 2023 Lascaux Poetry Prize.

More exciting news! This fun interview tells my father’s Macedonian immigrant story and the success of his coney island hot dog restaurant in Flint, Michigan. I also get to share some poems. Listen to “The Poet Daughter of Angelo’s Coney Island” on Radio Free Flint.

See my “Poet Laura” posts at Tweetspeak Poetry.

And, I have a Youtube channel.

Garrison Keillor read my “Rental Cabin, Maine” on The Writer’s Almanac on October 16, 2019. You can hear him here.

Tracy K. Smith, former US Poet Laureate also chose a poem to feature on her daily podcast, The Slowdown on January 13, 2020. She discusses “Making Zelnik at the Sibling Reunion” here.

I love poetry’s ability to bring up personal memories for the reader. After listening to these poems, many people, including strangers, reached out to me to share their stories. One person was transported back to the living room with his blind mother listening to Prairie Home Companion. I always want to write poems that touch people in some way.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Reviews of No Such Thing as Distance

Holmes is "gifted with language and makes it work for her to convey the most intimate and marvelous pieces of our beautiful broken lives." - Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books

These poems are "generous, using straightforward diction and syntax shaped with intelligence and precision, and there is much here to enjoy." - Rebecca Foust Women's Voices for Change

Verse Daily features a poem from No Such Thing as Distance

“She Knows the Names of Shells” was a finalist for Lascaux Review’s poetry prize and will appear in their anthology. Valparaiso Review originally published it.