Dennis
Holt is
a native of Hollywood, California, and after spending most of his
teen-age years in Sherman Oaks and graduating from Van Nuys High
School, he was educated in various subjects at CalTech, the University
of California at Berkeley, and UCLA (from which he received a Ph.D.
in Linguistics). Like Che Guevara, he served as a volunteer in Bolivia
during the 1960s, in the Peace Corps in his case. As a scholar,
he has done research on Native American languages of Honduras and
Mexico. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the Endangered Language Fund,
a Connecticut-based organization dedicated to the maintenance of
dying languages everywhere. He is currently Assistant Professor
of Linguistics at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain.
He lives in a recently emptied nest in Hamden, Connecticut, with
his wife, a doll-artist and mother of their 19-year-old son, who
has just begun his freshman year at Ringling School of Art and Design
in Sarasota, Florida. He is a translator of Spanish-language poetry
and of English-language poetry into Spanish. His poetry and his
translations have been published in various little literary magazines
on both coasts, including, recently, Blue Collar Review, Dirigible,
Etcetera, Connecticut River Review, and Short Fuse, as well as in
Honduras, El Salvador, and Ecuador. He has work forthcoming in Exquisite
Corpse.
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