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Junction City
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First published January 1, 1993
About the author
Scott C. Holstad
140 books108 followersScott C. Holstad is a Pulitzer & BOTN-nominated poet, writer & author with 75+ books to his credit & work in over 1,200 publications. He is a 33-year member of The Authors Guild & has been a member of other professional organizations, writing guilds & various associations including PEN, the STC, the Knoxville Writer's Guild, Georgia Poetry Society & Georgia Writers Association, among others.
His work has appeared in The Minnesota Review, Exquisite Corpse, Long Shot, Caffeine, Wormwood Review, Chiron Review, Hawai’I Review, Wisconsin Review, Pacific Review, Southern Review, Sports Illustrated, AIM, Palo Alto Review, Santa Clara Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Flipside, Cyber-Psychos AOD, Fringeware Review, Processed World, Wicked Mystic, Premonitions, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Kerouac Connection, Bouillabaisse, Bukowski & Serial Killers, Nexus, The Galway Review, Sivullinen, Gangan Verlag, Ink Sweat & Tears, Misfit, Mad Swirl, Libre, Synchronized Chaos, Hidden Peak Review, Bristol Noir, smols, dadakuku, Five Fleas, The Argyle, Cosmic Daffodil Journal, The Rang Yan Review, Horror Sleaze Trash, Alien Buddha Zine, miniMAG, Blood+Honey & 西洋文學在臺灣研究書目. His newest book, Where Do We Go from Here? Assorted Trip-Poems for Future Past Generations, was released in July 2026 by Alien Buddha Press.
Among those who have praised his work & books are Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Marilyn Kallet, Robert Polito, Jeannine Hall Gaiiley, Laurel Speer, Lisa Zaran, Michael Bugeja, Marvin Malone, GP Lainsbury, CL Huth, Jonathan Penton, Robert Peters, Todd Moore, Alan Catlin, Jon Nakapalau, Factsheet Five, Hawai’I Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Blue Villa, Ink Sweat & Tears, Wormwood Review, Dusty Dog Reviews, BBR Directory, Library Journal, Flipside, TapRoot Reviews, NewPages, KIRKUS Reviews, US Review of Books & many more. Many of his works are held in the Scott C. Holstad Collection at the California State University Long Beach University Library.
Scott Holstad holds degrees from the University of Tennessee, California State University Long Beach, UCLA & Queens University of Charlotte. He’s moved 35+ times, currently lives in Pennsylvania & loves geopolitics, good vinyl, cool books, custom rigs & hockey.
https://hankrules2011.com
X: @tangledscott
IG: @scottsmusicshak
His work has appeared in The Minnesota Review, Exquisite Corpse, Long Shot, Caffeine, Wormwood Review, Chiron Review, Hawai’I Review, Wisconsin Review, Pacific Review, Southern Review, Sports Illustrated, AIM, Palo Alto Review, Santa Clara Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Flipside, Cyber-Psychos AOD, Fringeware Review, Processed World, Wicked Mystic, Premonitions, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Kerouac Connection, Bouillabaisse, Bukowski & Serial Killers, Nexus, The Galway Review, Sivullinen, Gangan Verlag, Ink Sweat & Tears, Misfit, Mad Swirl, Libre, Synchronized Chaos, Hidden Peak Review, Bristol Noir, smols, dadakuku, Five Fleas, The Argyle, Cosmic Daffodil Journal, The Rang Yan Review, Horror Sleaze Trash, Alien Buddha Zine, miniMAG, Blood+Honey & 西洋文學在臺灣研究書目. His newest book, Where Do We Go from Here? Assorted Trip-Poems for Future Past Generations, was released in July 2026 by Alien Buddha Press.
Among those who have praised his work & books are Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Marilyn Kallet, Robert Polito, Jeannine Hall Gaiiley, Laurel Speer, Lisa Zaran, Michael Bugeja, Marvin Malone, GP Lainsbury, CL Huth, Jonathan Penton, Robert Peters, Todd Moore, Alan Catlin, Jon Nakapalau, Factsheet Five, Hawai’I Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Blue Villa, Ink Sweat & Tears, Wormwood Review, Dusty Dog Reviews, BBR Directory, Library Journal, Flipside, TapRoot Reviews, NewPages, KIRKUS Reviews, US Review of Books & many more. Many of his works are held in the Scott C. Holstad Collection at the California State University Long Beach University Library.
Scott Holstad holds degrees from the University of Tennessee, California State University Long Beach, UCLA & Queens University of Charlotte. He’s moved 35+ times, currently lives in Pennsylvania & loves geopolitics, good vinyl, cool books, custom rigs & hockey.
https://hankrules2011.com
X: @tangledscott
IG: @scottsmusicshak
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November 26, 2019
The late Marvin Malone, longtime editor of The Wormwood Review and Bukowski's longest, oldest publisher (magazines, not books) where he published Bukowski more than any other magazines, I believe, had this to say about Scott C. Holstad's Junction City in Wormwood Review #135: "Scott Holstad’s Junction City [Sister Moon Press] — Highly Recommended!"
That's more than enough for many people. If Malone endorsed it, it was gold. Of course, there's more to it than just one enthusiastic famous editor. First, it's a very nicely, professionally done poetry chapbook with high quality heavy card stock, creativity in font and design, and a supportive publisher who, as a female publisher, had no problems with the opening poem being "breakfast machine," which brought the professionals at the esteemed global WorldCat database to insert a rare description of being about "girls with big tits," which is such an unorthodox practice, when I saw it I didn't know whether to be offended or honored! Probably somewhere in the middle.
This seems like one of Holstad's seminal poetry collections, a highlight of the early Bukowski-caparisoned era but before the coming breakaway to writing that's far more violent, insane, "dangerous." A reader can have fun with Junction City. I'm glad I still have my copy because as far as I know, it's been hard as hell to find and is likely a collector's item now. Worth a read!
That's more than enough for many people. If Malone endorsed it, it was gold. Of course, there's more to it than just one enthusiastic famous editor. First, it's a very nicely, professionally done poetry chapbook with high quality heavy card stock, creativity in font and design, and a supportive publisher who, as a female publisher, had no problems with the opening poem being "breakfast machine," which brought the professionals at the esteemed global WorldCat database to insert a rare description of being about "girls with big tits," which is such an unorthodox practice, when I saw it I didn't know whether to be offended or honored! Probably somewhere in the middle.
This seems like one of Holstad's seminal poetry collections, a highlight of the early Bukowski-caparisoned era but before the coming breakaway to writing that's far more violent, insane, "dangerous." A reader can have fun with Junction City. I'm glad I still have my copy because as far as I know, it's been hard as hell to find and is likely a collector's item now. Worth a read!
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