Bob Holman was born in LaFollette, Tennessee in 1948.
He is best known as an impresario of new poetry: slams, hiphop, performance. But he’s also written eight books, most recently A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, a collaboration with Chuck Close.
Holman teaches at NYU and Columbia and is the Proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club. He’s made recent trips to the Kolkata Book Fair, Banff Arts Centre, the Costa Rican International Poetry Festival, and the Naropa Summer Writing Program.
He is currently working on a documentary about the poetry of endangered languages, On the Griot Trail, which includes footage from a recent two-month shoot in West Africa; and another on Allen Ginsberg’s experiences in India.
His work was featured in PEN America 3: Tribes.
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