Counting Kindness depicts the refugee experience with gentleness and admirable simplicity
“The readability of this title is quite impressive, with the ability to be read to younger children (…), yet holding the potential to open up conversation amongst older children (…) in depth.”
29 March 2025: Reading/author event at the French bookstore Amsterdam
Reading the French edition of ‘Counting in Green’ at Le Temps Retrouvé.
26 February 2025: Winter Writer’s Night – American Book Center Amsterdam
An evening for all lovers of the written word: writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, translators, agents and more!
31 January ’25: Amsterdam Quarterly AQ 2024 Yearbook Launch Party
Yearbook 2024 launched, with four poems by Hollis.
22 January ’25: Ivy Circle Open Mic, ABC Amsterdam
Event hosted by Hollis for Ivy Circle NL.
Hollis does a reading for Atlanta Review Launch Party
Atlanta Review Fall issue 2024
Scoundrel Time publishes two poems by Hollis
‘Omelet Nation’ and ‘Working the Room’ just went live
Omelet Nation
And a country slaps over on itself as the fatted pan heats, half bubbling half spitting its middle oozing, the diced and julienned facing off, transition quick as a fork stir, states of matter in spatula, liquid maybe to solid no as we flip and season, bits hissing where they fry, defy laws, molecules slowing […]
Working the Room
You’re not half the artist he is, his work hanging, as you well know, in world-ranked museums of modern art not to mention that gallery just off Madison and he’s recently been commissioned for a new design café, I could go on, but what’s the point. I could introduce you but it’s your responsibility to […]
From turmoil to peace… Counting Kindness reviewed on “Orange Marmalade” website
“My heart, and yours too, I imagine, breaks over the trauma of war and disaster that engulfs communities and pitches millions of young children into homelessness…”