During his tenure as Kansas Poet Laureate, Holden instigated a statewide video teleconf program titled SHOPTALK, in conjunction with Kansas State University’s TELENET 2 program.[1] SHOPTALK provided insight to poetry and poetry writing; the program provided a platform for Mr. Holden to have interactive poetry discussions with a live audience.[1] Several notable Kansas poets appeared as guests on the program.[1]
As Poet Laureate, Holden was also active as an advisor for "kansaspoets.com", a website specifically dedicated to Kansas poets and poetry.[2] As well, Holden was guest editor for The Midwest Quarterly.[3] The particular issue cited features over 60 Kansas poets plus special recognition to both Jonathan Holden and Denise Low. The issue received a very positive review from Literary Magazine Review (V. 25 Nos. 3 & 4 Fall & Winter), Jennifer Brantley, editor.
Publications and awards
Jonathan Holden published 18 books, all monographs, in addition to more than 190 poems published in professional journals.
Publications
Design for a House: Poems, University of Missouri Press, 1972
The Mark to Turn: A Reading of William Stafford's Poetry, University Press of Kansas, 1976.
The Rhetoric of the Contemporary Lyric, Indiana University Press, 1980.
Leverage, University Press of Virginia, 1983
Falling from Stardom, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1984.
The Names of the Rapids, University of Massachusetts Press, 1985.
Style and Authenticity of Postmodern Poetry, University of Missouri Press, 1986.
Landscapes of the Self: The Development of Richard Hugo's Poetry, Associated Faculty Press, 1986.
Against Paradise, University of Utah Press, 1990.
The Fate of American Poetry, University of Georgia Press, 1991
American Gothic: Poems, University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Brilliant Kids, University of Utah Press, 1992.
The Sublime: Poems, University of North Texas Press, 1995.
Guns and Boyhood in America, University of Michigan Press, 1997.
The Old Formalism: Character in Contemporary American Poetry, University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Knowing: New and Selected Poems, University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
Mama's Boys: A Double Life, Lewis-Clark Press, 2007
^pittstate.edu[permanent dead link], The Midwest Quarterly], a Journal of Contemporary Thought, Pittsburg State University, editor Stephen Meats, (Summer, 2007 V. XLVIII, No. 4) Dedicated to Kansas poets and poetry
Further reading
Buchanan, Carl Jay (2003). The Poetry of Contemporary American Poet Jonathan Holden. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN0-7734-6630-4.