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Bob Holman
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Bob Holman was born in LaFollette, Tennessee in 1948.
Once dubbed the “Poetry Czar” by The Village Voice, Holman has received NEA support for his new poetry media project, World of Poetry, the first digital poetry anthology of its kind.
Among his most important works are his latest collection of poems, A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, and his first CD, In With the Out Crowd. He also co-edited Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, which won the American Book Award. Holman won three Emmys producing Poetry Spots
for WNYC-TV and earned a Grammy nomination for a release from his
poetry record label, Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records (1995-98).
Holman was founding editor of the NYC Poetry Calendar, which curated
reading series at St. Marks Church, the Whitney Museum, the Public
Theater, among others, and is also the Artistic Director of the Bowery
Arts and Science. He teaches at Columbia University. |
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