Welcome to this web garden. Although, on second thought, it is very small, so maybe it’s more like an allotment or a balcony or a patio.
Holly Zijderveld is a cyber.print.poet living-and-working-together in the place typically referred to as ‘The Netherlands’, as well as on this folded up reality that we call ‘the internet’, which is living in an incredible but definite number of places. She/they are in fact, me, hey° ᡣ𐭩 . ° .!
I make poetry on themes such as connection, collection, and computing, in the broadest ways you can understand these terms. This poetry takes the form of writing (usually poems (duh) and essays), publishing, editing, and sometimes textile. I am currently writing poems about our relationships with computers and each other, trying to get a magazine project off the ground, and making other zines and publications for holly garden.
These themes also play into my work in technical research support, where I manage two community archives (Culture Capsule and an archive for sports in Curaçao, coming soon) and produce podcasts for the Re/Presenting Europe project.
In the past, I have studied anthropology and ethnography, and did research around open source machine knitting practice. Currently, I am reading a lot of Clarice Lispector and thinking about self-models. In the future, I hope to learn more about radio, dance, and the body.
Garden opening hours:
March 19-21 I am currently at the European Hip Hop Studies Network conference in Groningen, for my work with the culture capsule! I’m finallyyy getting to digitise people’s hip hop-related material histories! It’s such a pleasure to be here, hip hop people are so much fun.
Five most recent entries:
2026 ✪ Technological Craft, in almanac.sh
2026 ★ Extra Terrestrial Zine Fair, hosted by XPUB at Dokhuis Rotterdam
2025 ⁂ Poetic summarisation and node-taking at Symposium Universal Language I: Human-Computer Interaction
2025 ★ Collaborative editing for Plenty is much, I’m managing
holly garden is not only this little place on the internet, it is also my publishing garden. Standing outside of the house, organised but unruly. Things happen here together, let’s have a barbecue, let’s try to sunbathe under the apple tree. Listed below are the projects of holly garden. For now most of these are are.na links, but better documentation is coming!
001 Holly Library 002 Calling Card 003 Edges Magazine (idea pamphlet)
You can email me at hollyzijderveld [at] fastmail [dot] com. Find me on the Fediverse, at holly@pan.rent. You can also find me on are.na. I love to receive paper mail, if we know each other then please ask for my address.
This site can be dailed on the Internet Phone Book. Dial 20!
Everything on this page is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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recently, in light of the good weather, i’ve been going on runs, the longest i’ve ever gone on. the blossoms motivate me, they remind me that growth is possible, but growth takes energy. the page is, then, of course, pink.
as of 15 March, 2026, this website is two years, three months and thirteen days old.