About John L. Holgerson

John L. Holgerson is a writer and the author of three books of poetry. He lives in Taunton, Massachusetts, a city halfway between Boston and Cape Cod. He is the founder of the Poetry as Verdict project providing a public venue for high school student-poets to read their work. Since 1995, he resides part of the year on the Greek island of Hydra.

About Convictions of the Heart

Convictions of the Heart is a collection of poems divided into two parts. The first part, Hydra, is Holgerson’s delicate paean to an island he fell in love with when he first visited in 1970 and to which he still returns. The second part, Other Places, Other People, moves the setting from the Aegean Sea to explore the loves and lives of the poet’s experience away from Hydra. What unifies the whole collection is Holgerson’s masterful exploration of a fascination with memory, time, and experience and the shifting perspective that comes with arrival, leaving, recalling, returning. – Howard Firkin, editor, In Case of Emergency Press