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Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and slam poetry. As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author, editor, publisher, performer, emcee of live events, director of theatrical productions, producer of films and television programs, record label executive, university professor, poet's house proprietor and archivist. He was described by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The New Yorker as "the postmodern promoter who has done more to bring poetry to cafes and bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti."
Holman was born in Harlan, Kentucky in 1948, the child of "a coal miner's daughter and the only Jew in town." His father committed suicide when Holman was two. After his mother remarried, Holman was raised in rural Ohio. He attended Columbia College and graduated in 1970 with a degree in English. At Columbia, Holman studied with Kenneth Koch, Eric Bentley, and Michael Wood but claims that his "major poetry schooling," was "the Lower East Side, with Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anne Waldman, Miguel Piñero, Hettie Jones, Ed Sanders, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Pedro Pietri, David Henderson, Steve Cannon, et al."
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/mænˈdɛlə/; born Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla]); 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.
A Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. After the Afrikaner minority government of the National Party established apartheid – a system of racial segregation that privileged whites – in 1948, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 anti-apartheid Defiance Campaign, was appointed superintendent of the organisation's Transvaal chapter and presided over the 1955 Congress of the People. Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and, with the ANC leadership, was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961, leading a sabotage campaign against the government. In 1962, he was arrested, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.
Bob Holman - Rock & Roll Mythology on Def Jam Poetry
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/ Tuesday 8 July Protests against War: 1914 and Keir Hardie Founder of the Labour Party Bob Holman
"The Network: Cisco's Technology News Site" features Bob Holman on technology's impact on life in our "Social Spoken" video series. http://thenetwork.cisco.com
American poet Bob Holman discusses his new project "Language Matters". Recorded at Central Washington University, 2014.
bob holman presents poetry, poems and life on his own
A griot (gree-oh) is the keeper of the West African oral tradition and the tribe’s genealogy through poetic songs. Bob is invited to Gambia by his long-time friend and teacher, Papa Susso, to learn more about this musical art and see how the kora, the 21-string harp-lute is made. Bob travels up the Niger River with Papa’s son, Karamo, also a griot, in search of the spirit of the African-American Beat poet, Ted Joans, who lived a buoyant life in Timbuktu in the 70s and was Bob’s mentor. Along the way, Bob discovers the roots of hip-hop, rap, the blues — all the great American musical traditions that originated in Africa. The episode concludes with a kora-guitar jam session between Karamo and Ali Farka Toure’s son, Vieux.
Bob Holman reads the poetry of the late legendary Cleveland poet D.A. Levy (died when he was 26) at St. Marks Church on the Bowery, Manhattan
“In the Beginning was the Word,” starts this episode — but what language was it? Yiddish, which once had five daily newspapers in New York City, is now an Endangered Language. From the director of the Sholem-Aleichem House and the Yiddish storyteller, Sarat, we learn about the decline of Yiddish resulting from the Holocaust and the rise of Hebrew as the national language of Israel. Sarat cooks us a delicious cholent, a stew combining many of the ingredients from the old countries. While in Jerusalem, we experience the musical sounds of Ladino, the Spanish Hebrew of the Sephardic Jews, which is also endangered. The poet Ronny Someck, a “true Israeli poet from Iraq,” gives Bob a tour of Jaffa and tells us about the multilingual diversity that used to exist in Israel. He suggests visiting the...
Bob's Holman fly out
April 28th, 2016 This is a Q&A; following a screening of Paul Tschinkel's film about Elizabeth Murray, with Tschinkel and Bob & Sophia Holman, at Howl! Happening. Howl! Happening—home of the Elizabeth Murray memorial wall—is pleased to present a moving portrait of the artist by filmmaker Paul Tschinkel. Elizabeth Murray’s distinctive and unusual paintings made her one of the foremost artists working in New York. She died in 2007. A pioneering painter, Murray’s distinctively shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, her paintings and watercolors playfully rejuvenate old art genres—blurring the line between the painting as an object and the painting as a space for depicting objects in 3...
The 1st annual School of Thought took place April 19 - April 24 2016. Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and slam poetry. As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author, editor, publisher, performer, emcee of live events, director of theatrical productions, producer of films and television programs, record label executive, university professor, poet's house proprietor and archivist. He was described by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The New Yorker as "the postmodern promoter who has done more to bring poetry to cafes and bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti."
The show continues in Timbuktu where Bob gets more insight into the dusty off-station in the middle of nowhere. Bob goes to the Timbuktu Library, with volumes from the 16th Century when the city was the center of African learning. We ourselves learn how to ride a camel and how Timbuktu got its name before we venture into the Sahara and spend an afternoon listening to the hypnotic music of the Tuaregs, the nomadic “blue people,” named because their indigo-dyed clothing rubs off on their skin. Then we head south to visit the Dogons, renowned for the interplay of their culture of masks with daily life and rituals. Bob tries to get a mask ceremony to happen: he buys millet beer for the town, and we see how it is brewed. Then he has his fortune read via iconic marks in the sand that are left ov...
A wish, an invocation, an impassioned plea. For this contemplative evening of meditation, the Festival commissioned an esteemed assembly of writers and artists from a wide range of cultural backgrounds to write their original prayer for our time and read it live on stage.
Complete footage --as captured at the Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation (Hannah Cafe) on 16 April 2015 --parts 1 and 2 combined! -this footage is not live --but nor is it dead! --capture of what was lives and unplanned, belongs to moments now passed... Is what it is..
"Of the 6,500 languages spoken in the world today, only half will make it to the next century," says poet Bob Holman. In this video from the 2014 Poets Forum celebration, Ammiel Alcalay, General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative series, and Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, examine the state of endangered languages and poetic texts. *For highest quality playback, change your YouTube settings (the gear icon) to 720p HD.
The Poetry Project @ St. Mark's Church Wednesday, October 9, 2013 Bob Holman's reading is a book party for Sing This One Back To Me (Coffee House) so he'll be performing with his griot, Papa Susso, master kora player/singer, whose poems are central to the book, and special guests. He's just returning from a 3-week run of Captain John Smith Goes to Ukraine -- he plays the Captain, the run was in Ukraine, Bob co-wrote, with Yara Arts producing. Towards the end of October he'll be going to Australia to shoot the third and final section of the PBS documentary on endangered languages he's been working on with David Grubin, "Language Matters." Bowery Poetry 2.0, the continuation of the Club he founded, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this week.
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 6:30 pm 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor New York City
When you say love you're telling everyone your moment's
come
And you've found out what you've been looking for
When you say love you've said the only word that tells
the world
You never will be lonely anymore
You've got a pretty rainbow of your own
And at last you've found your pot of gold
You're completely satisfied a feeling of contentment
fills your soul
When you say love it means you've found your special one
And that you care enough to give your very best
When you say love there's not another word that says so
much
But that four-letter word means happiness
Your heart has given wings to touch the sky
Much higher than the eagle dares to fly
If you took everything you've heard and tried to make a
magic word
You'll find you've said it all when you say love
When you say love it means you've found your special
one...