Holman
New York
USA
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Naked Night
Not trying to impose
To set in motion the secret
The way is pretty durn milky
If you know what I’m saying
Cause I don’t you may
Sing this one back to me“The poem that floats Its message across The land that recedes To the stars themselves The recipients” The poem curves a line to you Floats a word back That’s the way we rock the world
To sleep. In the naked night,
The ocean wears a hat.
Bob Holman, Naked Night
American, b. 1948, playing from New York City, NY, USA
Bob Holman, founder and artistic director of the Bowery Poetry Club, is a poet most often connected with the oral tradition, live voicings of poetry, and poetry in digital media: spoken word, performance, hiphop, slam, poetry films, endangered languages. Dubbed "Ringmaster of the Spoken Word" (NY Daily News), "Poetry Czar" (Village Voice), and "Dean of the Scene" (Seventeen Magazine). He has published sixteen books of poetry if you include CDs and DVDs, which he does, most recently Sing This One Back to Me (Coffee House), which includes his first poem written in Welsh and translations of Griot songs of West Africa as sung by Papa Susso. His three-part TV series exploring Endangered language and culture in West Africa and Israel, "On the Road with Bob Holman," aired on LinkTV. Holman founded and ran the first major spoken word label, Mouth Almighty/Mercury; produced the award-winning Public Broadcasting System series, The United States of Poetry; and was the original Slammaster at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. For the past decade, Holman has devoted much of his time to endangered languages, including the two-hour PBS special Language Matters with Bob Holman, produced by David Grubin. He has two daughters and a son and lives on the Bowery where he is a beekeeper, with three hives on the roof of the Bowery Poetry Club.
Thoughts on Telephone process
Playing Telephone is like talking to the world. eg, Me: Hello, World? World: Hello! What took you so long?
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