Tim Holland curates our Instagram profile in August

29 July 2024

Photo: Simon Grunert

We are delighted to announce the next guest curator of our Instagram profile (@ercpoetryda) for the month of August: Tim Holland (@_timholland) will be covering the summer month! Following Tanasgol Sabbagh, Christoph Wenzel, Jörg Piringer, Cia Rinne, and Elizabeth Torres, Tim Holland is the sixth poet to curate our account for a month. With this series, we aim to expand collaborations between scholarship and art within our research project while helping to bring more poetry to Instagram.

About the curator: Tim Holland is a poet, author, and literary educator. His first volume of poetry vom wuchern was published by gutleut verlag in 2016. This was followed in 2022 by wir zaudern, wir brennen, published by Matthes & Seitz and awarded the Ver.di Literature Prize Berlin-Brandenburg. He has also received various scholarships, including, most recently, residencies in Hausach and Gelsenkirchen. In addition to his poetic work, he curates and moderates events on science fiction, possibility studies, and speculative literature. In 2022, he organized “Future Prospects: Eine Unkonferenz Spekulativen Fabulierens” (Future Prospects: An Unconference on Speculative Fabulation), which resulted in the science-fiction anthology Kollaps und Hope Porn: 13 Zukunftsaussichten. Since 2017, he has been running the publishing house hochroth München together with Tristan Marquardt and Hannes Munzinger.

We look forward to Tim Holland’s contributions at the interface of poetry, literary education, and speculative research into possibilities, and thank him very much for taking on the role of curator!