Holly Pettit
Holly Pettit served as a Russian Linguist in Europe for the U.S. Army, graduated Harvard Divinity School, and worked for the homeless community in Boston. She attended the Creative Center of New York's Program for Art in Hospitals, and in 2003 was Visiting Writer to Romania.
Her poetry appears in Antietam Review, Borderlands, Comstock Review, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, Masthead (Australia,) Mid-American Poetry Review, Mississippi Review Online, Potomac Review, Texas Poetry Journal, Web Del Sol, Xavier Review, and many other magazines.
Her book-length manuscript, For One Who Lives on the Mainland, is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press http://www.pecangrovepress.com.
She is a Moderator of the online poetry workshop Zeugma, http://www.zpoems.net.
Her poetry articles and exercises for Suite101 can be found at http://poetry.suite101.com.
Latest Articles
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Early Globalization in Oceania
By the time western adventurers such as Caroline Mytinger and Margaret Warner arrived in 1926, the once-isolated islands of Melanesia had already changed.
Jan 28, 2009
- Holly Pettit
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Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
Rita Dove's Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas and Beulah has many children and grandchildren in today's poetry world.
Jul 5, 2006
- Holly Pettit
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Burning Wyclif by Thom Satterlee
Thom Satterlee's linking narrative Burning Wyclif won the 2006 Walt McDonald First Book prize, and is probably the best book to come out this year.
Jun 28, 2006
- Holly Pettit
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The Poetry of Thomas Wolfe
Enjoy Thomas Wolfe the novelist? John S. Barnes saw poetry in Wolfe's work, and through careful selection and a few skillful line breaks, he reveals it to us.
Jun 24, 2006
- Holly Pettit
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Part of the Bargain by Scott Hightower
The casual reader in a bookstore might pick up Scott Hightower's Part of the Bargain and think, "Huh, Brokeback poetry." That would be a gross misunderstanding.
Jun 15, 2006
- Holly Pettit
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History The Home Movie by Craig Raine
In the past 50 years, poetry has broken away from its traditional relationship with music, and formed an attachment to painting. Craig Raine's work, however, has both.
Jun 13, 2006
- Holly Pettit
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Ghost Maps by Erin Noteboom
During her visits of April through December 1996, Erin Noteboom recorded her conversations with Carl Hruska, an American veteran of WWII.
Jun 9, 2006
- Holly Pettit
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Mona Lisa Saloy
For those who miss New Orleans, for those who stared at televised images of Katrina’s wake and wondered “why?” Red Beans and Ricely Yours will be a revelation.
Jun 8, 2006
- Holly Pettit
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The Criminal Life of Effie O
Illustrated poem, novel-in-verse, Sam Savage has written a children’s book for adults. With simple, deft verse he sketched out characters readers can really care about.
Jun 2, 2006
- Holly Pettit
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Amy Zoe Mason and Lucile
It’s an altered book based on the 19th century hit novel-in-verse Lucile. It’s fiction. It’s Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason.
May 20, 2006
- Holly Pettit
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