Amy Holman is a poet and prose writer living in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. She works freelance as a literary consultant and teaches writers how to find success in publishing. Since learning to knit in September 2003, she has enjoyed the meditative act of the craft, its applicable metaphors, the possibility of beauty, and some of what she's succeeded in knitting. She is the author of An Insider's Guide to Creative Writing Programs: Choosing the Right MFA or MA Program, Colony, Residency, Grant, or Fellowship, and the sold-out poetry chapbook, Wait For Me, I'm Gone. She has poetry, fiction and nonfiction published in print and online magazines and books, including the forthcoming anthology, Knitting Through It. Check out further details at www.amyholman.com.


Blog Entries by Amy Holman

Culture Purls

Posted September 15, 2007 | 07:38 PM (EST)


In late June I posted about a few of the knitting efforts done these days for and against the current war in Iraq, and one friend scoffed at Socks for Soldiers, alarmed that anyone would think that today's fighting men and women would not be able to get socks,...

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Battle Stitches

Posted June 19, 2007 | 02:44 PM (EST)


Those fighting for a war and those fighting against a war are close knit, expressing loyalty and protest through industry and art to stitch a pair of black socks for army boots and blood red sweaters to commemorate the dead. The lines are drawn in the sand, but must you...

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