Amy Holman is a poet, literary consultant, and artist. She is the author of six poetry books, including Captive (Saddle Road Press, 2023), and the prizewinning chapbook Wait for Me, I'm Gone (Dream Horse Press, 2005). She was a recipient of a Poet's Afloat micro-residency, and had a poem long ago in The Best American Poetry. She teaches writers how to navigate the literary market, and writes about what editors like to publish in her Substack newsletter What Where: Literary Journals. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Other poems by Amy Holman in Verse Daily:
October 3, 2010:   "Like" "The clearest bell ringing..."
March 28, 2005:  "Snowies and Blues," "Brother, Sister," and "Endangered" ""Where there is no accumulation, laced and soft, come flocks..."

Books by Amy Holman:

Other poems on the web by Amy Holman:
"Nun Other"
"How to Make a Whale Out of an Envelope"
"​My Mother Contributes to Force and Reaction"
"Bird Hearts Racing"
Two poems
Three poems
"my mother made herself the deer with a broken leg"
"1,500 Parakeets Rescued from 2-room Apartment"
"Let Her Go"

Amy Holman's Website.

About Captive:

"In Captive, her sharp-eyed, resplendently smart new book, Amy Holman offers us intricate insights into the diminishing rhythms of a dizzying array of species ranging from rabbits, toads, koalas, wombats and tigers to flowers to birds of every feather to a panoply of sea creatures, preeminently whales. A blue whale, in turn, can take many forms, from magnificent mammal to school art project to folded envelope. And we experience different kinds of blows: both whale exhalations and the blights we inflict and bear 'in depleting present, taking the blows' of the pandemic, along with catastrophic oil spills and plastic pollution. Meanwhile, Holman repeatedly revisits the story of a home destroyed by arson. Throughout, she teases out 'hidden links and double meaning[s]' implicit in histories, etymologies, and artistic encryptions—including not only the fascinating array of her own poetic forms but lazuli encapsulating a Medieval woman's 'prominence above men's signatures of the age.' In these exquisite and sobering, grave and witty, disciplined and exhilarating poems, so much of what is captured can't be held captive. 'Awake to every moment,' this wondrous collection is an urgent paean to 'what is wild, or what needs to be.'"
—Stephen Massimilla