From Slam to hip-hop, from performance poetry to Spoken Word, Bob Holman has been a central figure in the re-emergence of poetry in the US, Canada and beyond. He is currently creating a documentary series for LinkTV on the poetry of Endangered Languages – the roots of our current poetry performance practice are disappearing.

How about: 10 books including A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, a collaboration with Chuck Close; 2 CDs including In With the Out Crowd produced by Hal Willner; TV series on PBS and MTV, including The United States of Poetry and 3 Emmys; 5 edited by or intros by, including Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, American Book Award winner.

Holman teaches at Columbia and NYU, and is founder and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club. His current work centers on the poetry of Endangered Languages: LinkTV will begin airing his series spring 2010. He is also curating the Endangered Cento, a hundred-line poem with each line from a different endangered language, to be projected on the Secretariat of the UN as a rallying point – half the languages on earth will disappear before the end of the century, unless….

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