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'''Joan Houlihan''' (born October 16, 1952) is founder of the [[Concord Poetry Center]] in [[Concord, Massachusetts]] and author of two books: ''Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays'' (ISBN 0615123112) and ''The Mending Worm'' (ISBN 1930974590), winner of the 2005 [[Green Rose Award]] from [[New Issues Press]]. She writeshas written a series of essays on contemporary American poetry called ''The Boston Comment'' and is staff reviewer for the ''[[Contemporary Poetry Review]]''. She is editor-in-chief of the online poetry magazine ''[[Perihelion (magazine)|Perihelion]]''.
Houlihan’sHer work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry International, Fulcrum, Pleiades, Passages North, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Arts, VOLT and has been anthologized in ''The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries'' (University of Iowa Press, 2005) and ''An Anthology of Irish-American Poetry, 18th Century to Present'' (University of Notre Dame, 2006).
[[Ellen Wehle]], Poetrypoetry Editoreditor, [[AGNI]], writesand ofpoetry Houlihan'sreviewer, poemsstates: "First and foremost, these are poems of passion. Clean and spare, they are rich in image, hungrily appropriating the things of this world in order to express the other world. ... Writers are told 'make it fresh, make it new.' In ''The Mending Worm'' it's all new. Houlihan wields language like a weapon, carving out lines that are stingingly precise.” [http://www.bucknell.edu/westbranch/] West Branch]{{fact}}, Spring/Summer, 2006
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