About Us
The world needs another poetry journal like it needs a . . .
Hole in the Head Review was founded as a quarterly journal of art and poetry in 2019 by Bill Schulz. In 2025 Bill passed it to Mike Bove, its current Editor. Now a biannual journal, HITHR continues to feature some of the strongest work by established and emerging poets.
Turns out, the world does need another poetry journal. In times of struggle and uncertainty, we turn to words and images to order the chaos, bring light to the darkness. Here you'll find poems that celebrate the collective human voice: our struggles and victories, our enduring spirit.
Editorial Staff:
Editor
Mike Bove is the author of four books of poetry. His work has appeared in Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, Chestnut Review, and others. He was a two-time finalist for a Maine Literary Award and won the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest in 2021. In 2024 he served as Writer-in-Residence at Acadia National Park. Mike lives with his family in Portland, Maine where he was born and raised. He is a professor of English at Southern Maine Community College. www.mikebove.com
Ken Craft, a Pushcart Prize recipient, divides his time between writing and teaching college literature and writing courses. His most recent book of poems, Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between, follows his first collections Lost Sherpa of Happiness and The Indifferent World. His poems have appeared in Pushcart Prize XLIX: Best of the Small Presses, The Writer’s Almanac, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Pedestal Magazine, Spillway, and many other print and digital publications. www.kencraftauthor.com
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Kate Kearns is the author of You Are Ruining My Loneliness (Littoral Books, 2023). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Appalachian Review, The Swannanoa Review, Rustica, the Maine Sunday Telegram, Salamander, Peregrine, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. Kate was a finalist for the 2024 Charles Simic Memorial Prize and the 2024 Maine Postmark Poetry Contest. She earned her MFA from Lesley University. www.katekearns.com
Prose Poetry Editor
Jefferson Navicky is the author of four books, most recently the novel-in-prose-poems, Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands, which was a Finalist for the Big Other Book Award in Fiction, as well as Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose, which won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Electric Literature, Fairy Tale Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Jefferson works as the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection. He is the recipient of grants from the Maine Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, as well as two other Maine Literary Awards for poetry and drama. www.jeffersonnavicky.com
Associate Editor
David Stankiewicz is the author of two poetry books: Night Garden (Deerbrook Editions, 2024) and My First Beatrice (Moon Pie Press, 2013). A graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program, David is a professor of English at Southern Maine Community College. He currently lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his family. www.davidstankiewiczpoet.com
Associate Editor
Jeri Theriault, a Franco-American poet and visual artist, grew up in Waterville, Maine. She is the editor of the anthology Wait: Poems from the Pandemic. Her other published books include: Self-Portrait as Homestead, Radost, my red, In the Museum of Surrender, Catholic and (M)OTHER. Her poems and reviews have appeared widely. She is the recipient of A Fulbright Exchange Award, a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, a Monson Arts Fellowship, the 2022 Norwood Prize (New Ohio Review), and a Maine Literary Award. Jeri’s thirty-four-year teaching career included six years as English Department chair at the International School of Prague. www.jeritheriault.com
Editors Emeriti:
Bill Schulz [Founding Editor], Bill Burtis, Nancy Jean Hill,
Marilyn A. Johnson, Jere DeWaters, Michael Hettich