Notifications On
Winner of the WWPH Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, Emily Holland’s urgent debut collection, Notifications On, interrogates fluctuations of lesbian desire across physical and digital landscapes. Against the backdrop of climate collapse, these places and platforms become sites of wanting, embodying locations where the speaker attempts to make their yearning—and their queerness—legible. Social media bots, rural convenience stores, internet memes, sites of remembrance, and online chat rooms all become spaces that refract the speaker’s sense of self and interrupt the flow of their desire.
In turns that resist forward narrative movement, Notifications On revisits moments of anxiety, pleasure, pain, and love; through them all, the speaker tells us exactly what they are “afraid to put into words.”
“…sexy, unflinching, witting & intimate,” — Mac Crane, author of A Sharp Endless Need
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Meet the Author
Emily Holland
Emily Holland (they/she) is a genderqueer lesbian writer living in Baltimore, MD. Their work appears in publications including HAD, Shenandoah, DIALOGIST, Little Patuxent Review, and Black Warrior Review. She is the author of the chapbook Lineage (dancing girl press, 2019) and the recipient of multiple fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In 2023, they served as the Chair of Outwrite, DC’s LGBTQIA+ literary festival. They are the Executive Editor of Poet Lore, America’s oldest poetry journal, and the Communications Manager at The Writer’s Center. Learn more about Emily Holland at https://emily-holland.com/