{"id":1371,"date":"2020-02-25T09:17:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2021-06-02T04:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T08:18:39","slug":"bob-holman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/bob-holman\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Holman"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.13.51-AM.png\")
Featured in a Henry Louis Gates, Jr. profile in The New Yorker, crowned “Ringmaster of the Spoken Word” 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’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
He is the author of 17 poetry collections, A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, a c![\"\"](\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-9.12.26-AM.png\")
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’s study of hip-hop and West African oral traditions led to his current work with endangered languages.<\/p>\n
He is the producer\/host of films including “The United States of Poetry” and “Language Matters with Bob Holman,” both nationally broadcast on PBS.<\/p>\n
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