Erin Coughlin Hollowell
@beingpoetry
Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska.
everything berrying, burgeoning, seeding, green ripens flaxen crowned with mist, tips and slides into evening's waxing signature
For #theSealeyChallenge. I won’t be reading a book a day, but perhaps occasionally sharing poems from what I am reading. Today’s seems fit for the start of August from Jan Zwicky’s Songs for Relinquishing the Earth.
Sunlight rattle-passes each wave, licks each stone. Command or entreaty, spectacle or threshold. . #apprenticetolight
Inject this kind of poetry right into my veins. (from Christian Wiman's new collection The Dance)
Let's write some poetry together. I'm very excited to teach this class as part of the Orion Writers' Workshops. Application deadline on 7/15! Learn more: orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...
My church has no doors or walls. All are welcome and none turned away. #apprenticetolight
Hey Poets! Come take a class with me this fall. We're going to work on repositioning ourselves and our work in the landscape. Let's talk point of view, language, form, and imagery. This will truly be a gift of attention. Registration open now at: orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...
“I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay, small acts of kindness and love.” J.R.R. Tolkien (Sometimes, on quiet sunny summer mornings, it really does feel as if I live in the Shire.) #alaska
Folks, I'm pretty excited to be back in the virtual classroom this fall, not to mention how pleased I am to be repping the Orion Writers' Workshop. Registration opens up on July 1st: orionmagazine.org/events-works... Let's write some poetry together!
I am so pleased to have my work in this issue of The Freshwater Review. It contains the poem that won the Rose Warner Prize for Poetry and this other as well. 💚
The 2026 Alaska Literary Awards Application is Open! The Alaska Literary Awards recognize and support writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting, and mixed genres. Awards are made through the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation.
Rite of Spring, tonic and joy, gratitude and nourishment.
Beneath a sky rampant with the rattle of crane song, a token that spring is working her steadfast spellcraft.
Remembering you on your birthday with one of your poems that I carry and that carries me.
You want me to care about everything, but I'm so exhausted. (I understand this is a feature not a bug of the current system.) This morning, I took a few moments to care about beauty.
Behind the door was a wing. Behind the wing a mountain. Behind the mountain a memory. Behind the memory the words. Behind the words was brokenness. And wings.
The passing. Gifts from the ocean. One stone from the beach for today’s full moon and the Cailleach’s retreat. Three stones gathered above high tide line like drops of sun-drenched honey for Brigid on her day. 1/3
Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. ~ Robert Frost
My mantra to keep myself from spiraling out. Employed every time I start to slip into doom.
Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. Raymond Carver
Everything frozen deep in the mountain’s pocket solstice sun stirring #apprenticetolight #GrianstadanGheimhridh #kachemakbay