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Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Edited by Miguel Algarín and Bob Holman, Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, 1994

The Second Oswald with Andrei Codrescu

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A Jew In New York // Bob Holman

Like everybody else, I wasn’t a Jew Until I came to New York. In Portland, OR, The other day, a young Latina asked me If I were a Jewyorican. Papa and Bubby Came from the Ukraine, landed in Brooklyn, Settled in Harlan, KY, and named my father Benjamin Franklin. My mother, the offspring Of a coalminer, married him, the only Jew In town. He didn’t last. Ma remarried. In kindergarten, in Cincinnati, instead Of moving to the afternoon session the second Semester, I stayed in Morning and changed my name. This is the year 5755. In Chinese it is Year Of the Dog. For the first time I learned that The days between Rosh Hashona and Yom Kippur Are the Days of Awe. Moody and gray, with dashes Of absolute clarity, I love these days. Cleaning The summer’s sweat from the streets of New York, I always think of the Year beginning in September. “That’s when school starts.” A holdover from Youth. This year, 1994, for the first time I thought, Hey, it’s the real New Year, and I am a real Jew.

(found in Long Shot magazine, vol. 17)

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Our destiny is not to have an unfortunate end.

FROM THE VAULT! Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues - "Threat"

There are 6,500 languages spoken in the world. By the end of this century more than half will disappear. Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues is a tribute and call to action for linguistic diversity. Each line comes from a different treasure or minority language. 48 speakers each speak in their mother tongues, as line by line, language by language, the poem is created. Want captions on all videos? Multilingual subtitles? A nationwide Button tour? Check us out on Patreon!

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Postcard from Bob Holman 2004

Sent after selecting reVerse as the fourth best poetry CD of 2004 for About.com.

Bob Holman is a poet, publisher, and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. A longtime advocate for performance poetry and oral traditions, he helped shape the national conversation around spoken word in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Addressed to:

K.C. Clarke Poetry Center of Chicago 37 S. Wabash Chicago, IL 60603

Postmarked 2004.

Retained in Clarke’s records.

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ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin, Germany on October 13 (world premiere): https://www.haus-fuer-poesie.org/.../prog.../prism-ecopoetry

Midwest Video Poetry Fest at Arts + Literature Laboratory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 15: https://artlitlab.org/.../midwest-video-poetry-fest-2023...

Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival in Wellington, New Zealand on November 2-3: https://www.aotearoapff.com/international-programme-1

Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival in Vienna, Austria on November 15: https://www.poetryfilm-vienna.com/en/node/395

VIDEOBARDO Festival Internacional de Videopoesía in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November: https://videobardo.wixsite.com/home/videobardo27a%C3%B1os

Written & performed by Bob Holman Filmed & edited by H. Paul Moon Music by Marc Ribot & Bradley Jones Associate director Kyabell Glass

We Are the Dinosaur is a street-rant lament for the state of the planet delivered to an unsuspecting public seemingly content to yawn and go about its business while the Poet bumrushes the Courthouse, whispers in the ear of the Anonymous Businessman, suggests a cannibal diet at the site of the Nation’s first capital, takes flight at the Oculus near the World Trade Center, and swims against the implacable tide of humanity in Times Square. With a wrench-raucous score by Marc Ribot, energized-intrusion cinematography by director H. Paul Moon, and an over-the-top-and-then-some performance by poet Bob Holman, this poem promises to either explode the dead-soul reactions of the populace to climate crisis or become a deconstructive language bomb that blasts open the Gates to Kingdom Come.

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Spoken Word Special

Featuring poet, Anne Myles, about Late Epistle, Sappho's Prize in Poetry, and spoken word about heat, longing, love and late life by Sekou Sundiata, Cultural Consciousness, Rosalie Sorrels, Bob Holman, Odd City, Lord Buckley, Devorah Major...

Poet, Anne Myles speaks about Late Epistle Anne Myles Tony Robles interviews poet, Anne Myles, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her debut full-length collection Late Epistle, Headmistress Press, winner of Sappho’s Prize in Poetry 2022, and her chapbook What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer was published in 2022 by Final Thursday Press. Spoken word about heat, longing, love and late life by…

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