Influences

• Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Bill Shields, Kenneth Patchen

Favorite Books

• Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, A Coney Island of the Mind, On The Road, Naked Lunch, The Firebird Poems, The Stranger, The Fall

Favorite Authors

• Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Bill Shields, Albert Camus

What I'm Reading

• The Pleasures of the Damned by Bukowski, Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America by Smith, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook by Bukowski, Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems by Locklin, The Continual Condition by Bukowski

Web Links

• Scott C. Holstad
• Scott's Blog