Distance – Bill Hollands
Bill Hollands’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of poems that incorporate pop culture elements from his childhood. In his conversation with curator Kathleen Alcalá, they talk about the ’70s television shows that Bill watched as a kid, gay representation in popular culture, and how the book The Art of Voice by Tony Hoagland helped him with his writing. “What you’re looking for is a unique perspective on the world, and you want to hear that there’s a person behind these words. And so I think voice is what I turn to and am drawn to the most in good writing.”
Music by Greg Kramer, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
