{"id":11563,"date":"2020-02-25T13:17:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/bob-holman\/"},"modified":"2020-02-25T15:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:13:39","slug":"bob-holman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/bob-holman\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Holman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10161 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM-300x228-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM-300x228-1.png 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM-1024x777.png 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM-1536x1165.png 1536w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM-696x528.png 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM-1068x810.png 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM-554x420.png 554w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM.png 1785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Featured in a Henry Louis Gates, Jr. profile in The New Yorker, crowned &ldquo;Ringmaster of the Spoken Word&rdquo; by the New York Daily News, Bob Holman has performed his poems with a punk band in Kiev, a griot in Timbuktu, a ballet company in San Francisco. As the original Slam Master of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, creator of the world&rsquo;s first spoken word record label, Mouth Almighty\/Mercury, and the founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, Holman has played a central role in the spoken word and slam poetry movements of the last several decades.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of 17 poetry collections, A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, a c<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10163 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.26-AM-198x300-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.26-AM-198x300-1.png 198w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.26-AM-675x1024.png 675w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.26-AM-696x1056.png 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.26-AM-277x420.png 277w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.26-AM.png 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>ollaboration with Chuck Close), and has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. A co-founder of the Endangered Language Alliance, Holman&rsquo;s study of hip-hop and West African oral traditions led to his current work with endangered languages.<\/p>\n<p>He is the producer\/host of films including &ldquo;The United States of Poetry&rdquo; and &ldquo;Language Matters with Bob Holman,&rdquo; both nationally broadcast on PBS.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10162\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.36-AM-855x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.36-AM-855x1024-1.png 855w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.36-AM-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.36-AM-768x920.png 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.36-AM-696x834.png 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.36-AM-351x420.png 351w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.36-AM.png 939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured in a Henry Louis Gates, Jr. profile in The New Yorker, crowned &ldquo;Ringmaster of the Spoken Word&rdquo; by the New York Daily News, Bob Holman has performed his poems with a punk band in Kiev, a griot in Timbuktu, a ballet company in San Francisco. As the original Slam Master of the Nuyorican Poets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11588,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions\/11588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}