Bob Holman

File:Bob holman.jpg Bob Holman is a poet and poetry activist.

Career

Holman is the former manager of the St Mark's Poetry Project, and former slammaster of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He is now the proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, where he hosts regularly. He co-founded the NYC Poetry Calendar with Sara Miles and Susie Timmons in 1977. He is one of the poetry guides at About.com [[1]]. He is generally credited with bringing the poetry slam to New York City, where he and the New York poets have been responsible for its penetration into the mass media and commerical markets.

Bob Holman is a controversial figure on the Slam poetry scene. His take on Slam is democratic. Some, including Marc Smith, reputed father of the poetry slam, have said that Holman brought out the worst parts of poetry slams, including narcissism, political correctness, and intolerance.

Bibliography

• Bicentennial Suicide: a novel to be performed, 1976, Frontward Books
• The Rainbow Raises Its Shoulder/When A Flower Grows 1979, Chinatown Planning Council
• Tear To Open, 1979, Power Mad Press
• 8 Chinese Poems, 1981, Peeka Boo Press
• SWEAT&SEX&POLITICS!, 1986, Peeka Boo Press
• Cupid's Cashbox 1990, Jordan Davies
• Bob Holman’s The Collect Call of the Wild 1995, Henry Holt
• Beach Simplifies Horizon, 1998, The Grenfell Press
• A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, 2003 (a collaboration with Chuck Close)

Filmography

• Panic*DJ! Bob Holman Live at the Club LaMama - 1990
• SlamNation - 1998

External links

• bobholman.com
• Review of a Holman poem
• Online Holman poem

References

• The Spoken Word Revolution. Ed. Mark Eleveld. New York: Sourcebooks, 2003.
• Slamnation. 1998