Holland M. Colclasure, Cherokee poet/author is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a degree in English Literature and a Creative Writing minor.  Holland is a McNair, national scholar, who wrote two theses, “James Welch’s Riding the Earthboy 40: Poetic Notions in a Prosaic Nation,” and, “Walt Whitman’s Indifference Towards the Indians of America from the Death Bed Edition of Leaves of Grass.”  Holland also did an internship at the Sequoya Research Center exposing false groups claiming Cherokee blood in order to receive government funding.  Holland has worked for Children International for four years, shaping young minds and helping them find their creative outlet through poetry and short stories.  He was invited to read a selection from his first book of poems, “Wounded in Love, Wounded in Hate,” at The Prost, sponsored by the Arkansas Times “Pub or Parish” in April, 2010 and can be seen on youtube < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-MljSJ1UO4>  reading selected poems.  Holland has been featured in the DVD, “Arkansas: Shaping the Way We Think,” and is currently working on new poems, short stories and novels.  It has been said that he has Whitman’s soul and Bukowski’s style. Holland currently resides in London, U.K.