Riprap #16

by Scott C. Holstad (Contributor)

138 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1994

About the author

Scott C. Holstad is a disabled Pulitzer & BOTN-nominated poet & author with 75+ books to his credit & work in 850+ unique magazines. He is a 33-year member of The Authors Guild & was the founder/publisher of Big Head Press (1990-97), the Tek Thots newsletter (1996-2000) & poetry editor of Ray’s Road Review (2011-2017), as well as a journalist & editor for a variety of commercial publications.

His work has appeared in The Minnesota Review, Exquisite Corpse, Long Shot, Comstock Review, Wormwood Review, Chiron Review, Hawai’I Review, Pacific Review, Southern Review, Sports Illustrated, ;login, the TODAY Show, AIM, Palo Alto Review, Santa Clara Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Flipside, Cyber-Psychos AOD, Fringeware Review, Processed World, Wicked Mystic, Premonitions, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Kerouac Connection, Bouillabaisse, Bukowski & Serial Killers, Nexus, Stand, The Galway Review, Sivullinen, Gangan Verlag, Ink Sweat & Tears, Misfit, Mad Swirl, Libre, Synchronized Chaos, Hidden Peak Review, Bristol Noir, smols, dadakuku, Five Fleas, haiQu fOO, The Argyle, Cosmic Daffodil Journal, Horror Sleaze Trash, Alien Buddha Zine, miniMAG, Blood+Honey & 西洋文學在臺灣研究書目. His newest book, SURVIVING IMMORTALITY AGAIN, was released in 2025 by Alien Buddha Press.

Among those who have praised his work & books are Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Marilyn Kallet, Robert Polito, Jeannine Hall Gaiiley, Laurel Speer, Lisa Zaran, Michael Bugeja, Marvin Malone, GP Lainsbury, CL Huth, Jonathan Penton, Robert Peters, Todd Moore, Alan Catlin, Jon Nakapalau, Eric Jennings, Factsheet Five, Hawai’I Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Blue Villa, Ink Sweat & Tears, Wormwood Review, Dusty Dog Reviews, BBR Directory, Library Journal, Flipside, TapRoot Reviews, NewPages, KIRKUS Reviews, US Review of Books & many more.

Scott Holstad holds degrees from the University of Tennessee, California State University Long Beach, UCLA & Queens University of Charlotte. He’s moved 35+ times, currently lives in Pennsylvania & loves geopolitics, good vinyl, books, custom rigs & hockey. Disabled & retired, he currently holds positions of Professor Emeritus at The Royal United Services Institute for Defence & Security Studies (RUSI) & Researcher (Research Scientist) with the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).

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Reviews

[Scott Holstad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Riprap, California State University Long Beach's literary annual journal, is consistent if anything and Issue 16 (1994) is no exception. The book starts out with that pieces by that year's visiting writers -- in this case Michael C Ford, Edward Field, Robert Franklin Gish and Belinda Subraman. The rest of the volume typically showcases work by CSULB students, staff and a few faculty members, though a certain percentage of the journal is usually set aside for any international poet/writer who can get a piece accepted. That being said, I see little evidence of "outsiders" in this edition, which I find surprising and a touch disappointing. Nonetheless, some of the contributors in this annual include Hayley Mitchell, Glenn Bach, Clifton Snider, Geoff Harmon, Scott Holstad and Gerald Locklin. A good journal to read and write for, and a solid rep of the "Long Beach School of Poetics," as Ed Field identified it in a Poets & Writers article. Recommended.