Walter Holland

2016 brought with it some excellent poetry books, both within and outside the LGBT community. I had the pleasure of reviewing several of these books and reading a few others at leisure. I thought I might share where my reading interests took me last year. One of the most interesting books was Annah Anti-Palindrome's "DNA Hymn," a first book of her poetry from Sibling Rivalry Press. Michelle Tea calls it a "phenomenal work of embrace and exorcism . . .Annah Anti-Palindrome has

A few photos I took of some haunts of my youth in Lynchburg, Va. Jones Memorial Library and Garland Rhodes School both abandoned and weathering away.The Library was my first introduction to the world of literature with its imposing facade and engravings of the greats. As a kid I used to study in its Reading Room. Garland Rhodes School was my home for First and Second Grades. Girls entered at one entrance and Boys at the other. We had the old wooden desks from the late 19th Ce